categorical imperative

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Kant distinguished the categorical imperative from the hypothetical imperative, which is an action one takes to achieve a specific goal.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2017

Kant: Equal access to and distribution of snack mix ingredients is a categorical imperative.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2014

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

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley