Making the happiness of others our end

Kant says that a virtuous persons has the happiness of others as an end. Note that this is not an end in the sense of a goal which we try to achieve. For the goal can’t be that all others are happy . If that were the goal, we might as well not even try: we’re not going to achieve it. Nor can the goal be that some others are happy . For that’s already so, and so nothing need be done. Could the goal…