ABSTRACT
The Kantian ethics shows the meaning of moral principles solely in their character of ought. The commandment, the imperative, the claim upon man, was the moral law. The ethics of ends involves a fundamental misunderstanding of moral values, in its false identification of personal with the value of the situation striven for. Personalism supports this theory by the proposition that a person as such, with all that pertains to him can never in essence be objective—a proposition which rests upon a misunderstanding of the categorial relation between subject and person. Goods and valuable situations come into existence without the assistance of someone willing them; they come either in a natural way or as the result of human action, but without their being the conscious goal of the action. Situational values volition and outward conduct, are always subjected to a selection through the moral feeling—and in proportion to the mass and strength of the latter.
