Kant argues that will motivate action. This is a statement
that I firmly argues with, many times people have thoughts or ideas of what
they want to do but without the actual will to do it the never carry out that
idea or plan. Will is something that aims to produce result, in fact without
will there would probably be no results at all.
Like we were discussing in class goodwill will happen regards less of
the outcome. If we were to give a diabetic a donut but we didn’t know his
health status and he got sick, giving the diabetic to donut was the a good will
even thought it caused him harm. We had no previous knowledge of the person’s
health and therefore it could not have been bad from our standpoint. It seems
odd to think that we still had good will even after harming someone, but it is
true. We did not know that person would get sick and all we wanted to do was
share some delicious donuts. What do you guys think about the principle? Is it
wrong to think that we still did something good even though someone was harmed?
And just remember that it could also work the other way
around. For example if someone was driving recklessly and ran over a criminal that
was on his way to rob a store it does not make it okay that he was ran over. At
the time he got ran over he was just a pedestrian on the road. In the end he
might have bad intentions but the criminal was not harming anyone while
walking. So what do you guys think about these principles?