Your Will is a capacity to determining oneself to action. And we can do this in accordance with laws. Not laws of the state or laws of gravity, we can give yourself Laws or rules to abide by that can be applied universally or objectively to all beings of a certain sort (Rational Beings). What serves the Will as a subjective ground of its self determination is an end, one example I can use here is making my wife happy by cooking her dinner which is the action and the goal of the action is the end. If it is given by reason alone it must be equally valid for all rational beings. So if its not just a matter of my subjective preferences or my personal history, its given by reason alone. My example is not given by reason alone, if you say while I’m in a marriage I ought too to insure that my spouse be happy in that relationship with me, that is given by reason alone. He also talks about objective end which are valid for every rational
Your Will is a capacity to determining oneself to action. And we can do this in accordance with laws. Not laws of the state or laws of gravity, we can give yourself Laws or rules to abide by that can be applied universally or objectively to all beings of a certain sort (Rational Beings). What serves the Will as a subjective ground of its self determination is an end, one example I can use here is making my wife happy by cooking her dinner which is the action and the goal of the action is the end. If it is given by reason alone it must be equally valid for all rational beings. So if its not just a matter of my subjective preferences or my personal history, its given by reason alone. My example is not given by reason alone, if you say while I’m in a marriage I ought too to insure that my spouse be happy in that relationship with me, that is given by reason alone. He also talks about objective end which are valid for every rational