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Eternal Recurrence and the Categorical Imperative
; ...intends eternal recurrence to be like a categorical imperative. The obvious objection to understanding eternal recurrence as like a categorical imperative is that for a categorical imperative to make any sense, for moral obligation... Read more
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; ...entitled The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative, comprises three essays focusing...at showing how Kant derives the Categorical Imperative from the concept of moral goodness...section of the book, entitled The Categorical Imperative and Its Formulations, consists... Read more
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; ...their maxims to be tested by the categorical imperative. This prior moral knowledge needed...and since Herman argues that the categorical imperative test breaks down for specific maxims...actual maxim cannot be tested by the categorical imperative. The categorical ... Read more
A Kantian Intuitionism. (Mind).(philosopher Immanuel Kant)(Brief Article)
; ...formulations and explanations of the categorical imperative, has led some critics to regard...conviction that understanding of the categorical imperative may be enhanced by reflection on...unication possible through the categorical imperative and other notions prominent in... Read more
A Rational Superego.(Critical Essay)
; ...therefore declares that Kant's Categorical Imperative is ... the direct heir of the Oedipus...rational authority, whereas the Categorical Imperative is supposed to carry all the authority...model for various aspects of the Categorical Imperative, if not for its rational force... Read more
art Review of "A Categorical Imperative Cast Adrift ".(Daily Break)
; ...length of Ron Snapp's sculptural assemblage titled A Categorical Imperative Cast Adrift on a Stormy Sea of Doubt. Recognize that...the title? Here's a hint: Look up Immanuel Kant and categorical imperative, then compare the philosopher's absolutes to Snapp's... Read more
EVERYDAY ETHICS; This fear of flying is an ethical problem.(NEWS)(FAITH & VALUES: EVERYDAY ETHICS)
; ...acting on principle, would have advised you follow the Categorical Imperative, which says to act only according to maxims (principles...Frankly, I have never really understood how to apply the Categorical Imperative in practice, since you can usually formulate the principle... Read more
Categorical imperative: Loggins
; SUBTEXT Categorical imperative: Loggins The basic categories of everything," Chris informs Bernie, in Matthew Sharpe's The Sleeping Father, are, "Time, Space... Read more
The Humanity In Oprah -- As Expressed In All Of Us
; ...etcetera. That need functions like a categorical imperative, and we identify with everyone...accomplishments, etcetera. The categorical imperative is reputedly what is at the heart...Each of us is uniquely woman! The categorical imperative is a tool of language that renders... Read more
Farewell Johannes.(Johannes Agnoli)(Obituary)
; ...comrades, were moved from teaching the categorical imperative of human emancipation to prison...afterwards. Agnoli was one of the categorical imperative's most important thinkers, in Germany...Agnoli's work was that of the categorical imperative of human emancipation whatever... Read more

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categorical imperative n. A principle of morality first...your desire for X . A maxim is a categorical imperative if it takes the form ‘Always...obtaining some end that you desire. A categorical imperative is intended not only to be rational... Read more
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...Kant held that there was only one formally categorical imperative, from which all specific moral imperatives...a universal law.' deontological ethics . categorical imperative categorical imperative categorical imperative Read more
Categorical Imperative
Categorical Imperative. In the ethical theory of I. Kant , the absolute moral law, given in reason, and therefore binding upon every rational being. Read more
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Categorical imperative. In Kantian ethics, the universal moral law, by which all rational beings are by duty constrained to act. The term was introduced in the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Read more
Henry Sidgwick
...significant 19th-century ethical work in English. Drawing on the utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill and the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant , he proposed a system of 'universalistic hedonism' that would reconcile the apparent conflict... Read more

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