The bounden search for certainty + Introduce H through a contrast with Kant, thus: - What we see on looking out from this world does not diminish us. + Quote Kant, putting ‘starry heavens’ and ‘moral law’ only in square brackets to qualify ‘the first’ that diminishes and ‘the second’ that elevates. / I do not want to quote the emotive rhetoric he begins with. - Rather, it is only moral duty in *conjuction* with that outlook that raises us from the otherwise unworthy situation of uncertainty. - It confers a kind of worth upon us, one that is conditional and tentative, as befits a default ethic. - The condition the outlook reveals is one we might easily have underestimated, whether in worth or difficulty, and so overlooked. - If so, then no longer: we can now easily see that its worth and difficulty are [well] on a par with the goal we seek. - This leads to the recognition that H is a principal condition of M. - H is the [very] path from here to there, from where we stand on the ground of moral uncertainty to our destination in {M | moral certainty}.