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categorical imperative

NOUN
moral law
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Kant provides other formulations of the categorical imperative, where he states that one must always treat humans as “ends in themselves” rather than “a means to an end.”

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

This led him to a thought exercise known as the categorical imperative An action is right only if it is right for all people in all situations.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 2021

“Here the categorical imperative applies—would you want everyone else to do what you just did, or would that be bad?”

From Slate Apr. 9, 2018

Kant introduced the world to the theory of the categorical imperative; Larry, the chat-and-cut.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2017

All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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