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
As explained previously, Kant bases his moral philosophy on the categorical imperative, which helps one recognize moral and immoral actions based on whether they can be turned into a universal maxim that applies to everyone.
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
