Kant’s Morality

Scott: Some things in the world … are doubtless destined to be enjoyed only by the gifted and the privileged. Whether we shall be happy, influential, successful, or what not, depends always to a great extent on matters beyond our control – on natural gifts, inherited temperament, congenial circumstances. But it is not so with every kind of good. There is a good which is as open to the poor, the disappointed, the miserable, nay, which is as open to the intellectually clouded – as it is to the child of genius and the darling of the gods. Only in certain circumstances can you be happy; but always you can be good. For to be good you only need to want so to be. If you wholly want to be good, then you are so.