Much in the way that Plato says the Good surpasses being (and the lesser forms) in age and power, Kant says the desire for goodness is the source for desiderata of its own, what ought to be made real.[3] Kant thinks that free will can determine itself independently of any object of ...
Or, to use the Levinasian metaphor I used in the title of this post, practical reason (i.e., the will) is a kind of desire older than any desideratum. Much in the way that Plato says the Good surpasses being (and the lesser forms) in age and power, Kant says the desire for ...