Therefore, the law that we should promote the happiness of others does not arise from the assumption that this is an object of everyone's choice, but merely from this, that the form of universality which reason requires as the condition of giving to a maxim of self-love the objective validity of a law is the principle that determines the will. Therefore it was not the object (the happiness of others) that determined the pure will, but it was the form of law only, by which I restricted my maxim, founded on inclination, so as to give it the universality of a law, and thus to adapt it to the practical reason; and it is this restriction alone, and not the addition of an external spring, that can give rise to the notion of the obligation to extend the maxim of my self-love to the happiness of others.
Beraz, besteen zoriona sustatzeko legea ez da edozeinen nahieraren objektu dela onartzearen ondorioa, baizik eta soilik arrazoimenak baldintza gisa norberaren zorionaren maxima bati lege baten baliotasun objektiboa emateko behar duen orokortasunaren forma nahimenaren determinazio-oinarri bihurtzearen ondorioa, eta beraz, objektua (besteen zoriona) ez zen nahimen hutsaren determinazio-oinarria, baizik eta legezko forma soila besterik ez, joeran oinarritzen zen nire maxima mugatzeko bitartekoa, hari lege baten orokortasuna emateko, eta hura horrela arrazoimen praktiko hutsaren pareko bihurtzeko, eta horren mugapen horretatik soilik sor zitekeen norberaren zorionaren maxima besteen zorionera hedatzeko lotespena, eta ez kanpoko bultzagai baten gaineraketa batetik.