categorical imperative
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There are two important formulations of the categorical imperative: the universal law formulation and the humanity formulation.
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
Kant introduced the world to the theory of the categorical imperative; Larry, the chat-and-cut.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2017
All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
