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categorical imperative

NOUN
moral law
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If you pass through Rome, a visit to the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, buried in the city’s Non-Catholic Cemetery, is a categorical imperative.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

For Kant, an action or decision is moral if you can universalize it, which he formulates in the categorical imperative.

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

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

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley


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