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 …

…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.