y his care must try to become capable of legislating, if it is through laws that we become good" (n.d., p. 1866)
For Kant, morality consists not in a man's intention but his conduct. A man is good only insofar as he acts on the basis of a universal moral law. He says that "the ground of obligation must be looked for, not in the nature of man nor in the circumstances of the world in which he is placed, but solely a priori in the concepts of pure reason" (Kant, 1964, p. 57). At another place he says that "there can be no genuine supreme principle of morality which is not grounded on pure reason independent of existence" (1964, pp. 76-77). The expression of this morality is observance of duty. Since man's purpose is not to be happy but to be good, then he must observe a morally universal law. This duty translates into "the necessity to act out of reverence for the law" (1964, p. 68). His categorical imperative is that "I oug
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