categorical imperative
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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
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
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