Kant believed this was a sure criterion of what is right and what is wrong. Kant also made the point that an act desired of everyone would be a good act, or if the act is performed with good intentions it is good no matter if it brings pain. This question has been around for hundreds of years. Many transcendentalists think they have answered it. Kant said there must be a God who is wise, good, and powerful to join happiness and goodness.
Transcendentalists firmly believe that the mind is superior to matter.
According to Kant, there are intuitions of the mind itself not based upon experience, but through which experience is acquired. Kant also thought humans are shut up in their minds and must interpret everything. He believed that space and time are not realities existing by themselves, but are ways the mind has of receiving and shaping sensations. To the thinkers who followed Kant the most logical solution to the problem of mind and matter was to eliminate matter. Transcendentalists believe many ideas come from the mind itself, not from experience.