Josef Pieper aims to make it clear in his beautiful, still highly relevant little work that any obligation in true and authentic humanity must wither and perish without a connection to being, to God, and without alignment to His will. To this end, he examines the hierarchy of moral virtues as they correspond to the ideal of the "good person," arriving at the same conclusion as Meister Eckhart: "People should not think so much about what they ought to do; they should think about what they ought to be.".