In the Dreams moral feeling is the desire to harmonize the subjective will to the general will. The corporeal world is connected to the intelligible world by moral feeling. In the Opus postumum , at the end of his life, Kant writes God and the world outside me, the moral feeling within me. Moral feeling is described as an innate moral predisposition in the Conflict of the Faculties and the Anthropology . In the lectures on Metaphysics, Kant explains that pleasure is what harmonizes with the principle of life.
Life is the principle of self-activity, which is hindered by the material body.
Intellectual pleasure comes when one feels one's freedom, and this feeling can only be found in morality. The sublime is a presentation of nature that excites this same intellectual pleasure in us and thereby gives us reason to believe that nature is supportive of the ends of freedom. The theme of feeling one's freedom, of feeling the elevation of the soul seems to be present in Kant's thought throughout his life, and while he is careful not to make knowledge claims in this area, it does seem to be true that he always believed this is an accurate account of the human condition. Here lies, most probably, the significance of the sublime in Kant's moral metaphysics. The cognitive faculty is connected with the faculty of desire by the feeling of pleasure and displeasure.