The dangers of moralism run deep and in more than one direction. The direction just surveyed is one fed by a current of arrogance: elevate virtue and dignity the way the Stoics and Kantians do and things of great importance will fade from view, sucked into the turgid waters of the moralizing mind. Pulling in another direction is a different current of moralism: the passion for purity. Perhaps the most passionate and intelligent moralizer in intellectual history, Immanuel Kant, argued that the foundation for morality must involve a value that is unqualifiedly good. He went on to assert that such a value could not in itself ever lead a well-motivated person to do the wrong thing. If a well-motivated person ever does the wrong thing, it must be traceable to something independent of what is good about that person. The same point could be made in terms of virtue, Stoic or otherwise.