(so that the will could also be defined as the power of purposes, inasmuch as these are always determining bases of the power of desire according to principles), yet the practical maxims that would follow from the above concept of the good as merely a means would never contain as the object of the will anything good by itself, but always only something good for something or other; the good would always be merely the useful, and that for which it is useful would always have to lie outside the will, in sensation.