KANT
KANT
Kant begins to claim that there is nothing in the world
that can be regarded as good without qualification except
good will. He says that qualities of temperment such as
courage can also become extremely bad and harmful if the
will is not good. Gifts such as fortune; power, riches,
honor and health make for pride and sometimes even
arrogance. A good will seems to constitute the
indispensable condition of being even worthy of …
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…attained by it. but in the maxim
according to which the action is determined. Kant also
explains that duty is the necessity of an action done out of
respect for the law. Only the law itself can be an object
of respect and can also be a command. Moral worth does not
lie in the effect expected from it nor in any principle of
action that needs to borrow its motive from this expected
effect.
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