R. Marvin Fox in “The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRal”:

…[W]hatever is divinely commanded through the Torah is intrinsically good. The social utility or wide-spread general acceptance of particular commandments may add to their attractiveness from our limited human perspective. Their ultimate ground, however, is their intrinsic value. Since we are incapable of grasping this fully through our own resources, we submit in modest awareness of our creaturely finitude to the divine wisdom… We have here two poles of a dialectical exposition. On the one hand, virtues are conceived as divine decrees to which man can only submit in faithful self-suppression. On the other hand, virtues are conceived as intrinsically valuable and thus commanding the freely given assent of any intelligent person. Thesis and antithesis are synthesized in the actual situation of man. The very process of submission grants him the illumination which in turn leaves no doubt about the intrinsic worth of the commandments. Thus, the man of true piety will observe the commandments with a combination of loyalty to God’s word and intelligent apprehension of the supreme wisdom implicit in that word.