categorical imperative

Another cited German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s “categorical imperative” to treat humans not as a means to an end, but as an end in themselves.

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.

Having made his name promoting transparency in state accounts and other old-style mainstream Republican priorities, he now torques ordinary conservative dispositions into categorical imperatives.

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.

In terms of German political thought, her lodestar has been Max Weber’s damage-limiting “ethic of responsibility,” not Immanuel Kant’s moralistic “categorical imperative.”