Abstract
In this essay, I argue that Kant has a philosophically coherent notion of the highest good for the individual, where this is understood as an object of practical reason, but not as an object of moral action. Crucially, only an object of moral action demands a causal relationship between virtue and happiness, according to which the former brings about the latter. The account I argue for here requires only a conditioning relationship between virtue and happiness. As such, the account I offer is a relatively scaled-back version of the highest good for the individual. Nevertheless , I think it can serve as the basis for a kind of practical belief.