 Kant denied that the present world contained as much goodness and happiness as possible. Rather, it was definitely progressing towards greater cultural development, and perhaps moral development. Hope and effort, especially in the latter struggle where they were most needed, was itself morally mandated (8:8–32). So the ‘idea of a moral world’ had ‘objective reality’ as a ‘corpus mysticum of the rational beings in it’ even if it was only the sensible world viewed in a different but obligatory way.