he act with moral intent is important while the one without intent is not.
For Kant, the will that acts for the sake of duty is the good will. Kant makes recourse to a conception of God in order to explain this, noting that the will of God is a good will, but that it is absurd to speak of God acting out of duty. The concept of duty implies the need to overcome some obstacle in order to act, and it is foolish to speak of God as having to overcome any obstacles whatever. To explain further the notion of duty, Kant uses as an example a merchant who does not overcharge an inexperienced customer. This decision is completely in accord with duty. Assume, though, that the merchant avoids overcharging so that he can give all his customers the same price in order to keep them coming to him for merchandise. He does this
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