1. Thanks to Marguerite La Caze and to the journal's anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
2. All page references in the text and notes, unless otherwise indicated, are to Immanuel Kant, "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason,"Religion and Rational Theology, ed. Allen Wood and George Di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996a) 39-215.
3. See Henry E. Allison,Kant's Theory of Freedom(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990) 129-36.
4. It is important to note that Kant's terms "Anlage" and "Gesinnung" are not as closely related as their English translations, "predisposition" and "disposition," might suggest.