PHI 192 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Categorical Imperative, Universal Law
1 Oct 2018
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Only thing that is good in itself, always and unconditionally. Would not believe pleasure is unconditionally good (if your pleasure is killing people, that"s not happy in itself) Not just a will ruled by impulses, desires, or feelings (however seemingly good these are in some contexts, they can be bad in other contexts) unreliably/only conditionally good. Help out a friend out of friendship by giving them a job, might be unfair and not good overall. Not just a will that achieves good consequences. Your will can still be good even if it doesn"t achieve good consequences. Motive shop keeper - if a child comes just to buy a small item but quite a lot of money on them, it would be easy to give the child an incorrect amount of change. But, somebody may find out that he is not an honest shopkeeper - so out of motive of self interest he decides to give child the correct change.
