Virtue, Reward, Communication

In ordinary contexts, what distinguishes a reward from a random occurrence of good fortune is some kind of accompanying expression, usually verbal, characterizing it as such..  So, similarly, for a virtuous person to conceive a happy experience as a divine reward for that Virtue, Reflective Judgment must interpret it as entailing some kind of message characterizing it as such.  Hence, to whatever extent Kant's Moral doctrine, and its complementary theory of Teleology, are concerned with the rewarding of Virtue, a concept of Communication is presupposed.  However, his only explicit treatment of the topic of Communication appears in his Aesthetic theory, and there at only a remove from a happy experience itself, i. e. from the pleasurable contemplation of Beauty.  Still, there is an implicit communicative dimension in his analysis of that Aesthetic experience--the object of Beauty seems personally addressed to the subject of contemplation, and it has an ulterior meaning, i. e. it is a symbol of Morality.  So, Kant's Aesthetic theory contributes an implicit concept of Communication, thought not an explicit, developed theory of it, to his Moral doctrine, and, therefore, to its associated Moral Theology, which is based on the concept of God as a rewarder of Virtue.