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For Kant this journey had a side benefit. He discovered that it was all more impressive to be good as a human than God itself. For a human to do the right or moral thing means that a decision must be made; to side with the duality within each person, to be moral or follow the animalistic nature of inclination. This inclination is the desire, primarily, to be happy.
To be moral means adhering to codes of goodness and selflessness. This might involve running into a burning building to rescue a child. This doesn’t make one happy, because one doesn’t say, "I could die or I could live” This seems ludicrous, that one would chose the good of one over the good of another, and not chose yourself. But this is what elevates us above the rest of the life on the planet, that we will chose to serve the laws of morality and justice, while putting aside one’s own happine
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That is why it is so much more impressive to do moral acts as a human than God.
"The categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without any reference to any other end. This is simply to say that one knows what is the moral thing to do and must, in some cases, choose over happiness when conflicts of interest occur chose the moral way. Kant has therefore shown that Plato’s analogy of the Ring Of Gygies is not the perfect life, that Hobbes was wrong when he said that the best life was to be able to do whatever suited our desires. A few of these components are: a priori, a posteori, maxim, will, and law.
How does one know what is moral? The terms before assist me with this answer. In other words, we feel guilty and awful after we have chosen the less glorious, but all the more easy and gratifying in the short term, way out called desire. For God only has one option, only one imperative for doing an act.
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