Immanuel Kant's Moral Worth

Immanuel Kant believes that the moral worth of your action is determined entirely by whether or not you were motivated by duty. Whereas John Mill believed that the moral worth of your actions is determined by the amount of happiness it produces - and for the greatest number of people. Kant defines duty as the "necessity to act out of respect for the moral law". So, if it is your duty to an attempt at something and you failed, your actions are still orally good; the consequences of that attempt are morally irrelevant. For Kant, morality isn't a matter of what makes you happy - its about rationality.

To determine an action's moral worth, you must look to the will of the person who willed the action .The good that the good will wills, (tongue