categorical imperative

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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

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

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

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley