Synonyms for categorical imperative


Grammar : Noun


Définition of categorical imperative

  • noun moral law
Example sentences :
  • Here steps in the "categorical imperative" with a vengeance.
  • Extract from : « The Building of a Book » by Various
  • A vocation was a "categorical imperative" to the soul, and there was no mistaking its presence.
  • Extract from : « Passing By » by Maurice Baring
  • Kant gave us a guiding rule with his categorical imperative.
  • Extract from : « Friedrich Nietzsche » by Georg Brandes
  • Kant, categorical imperative, 86.Good-will only real good, 85-86.
  • Extract from : « The Five Great Philosophies of Life » by William de Witt Hyde
  • The ‘categorical imperative,’ as propounded by him, is a form of self-deception.
  • Extract from : « Rationalism » by John Mackinnon Robertson
  • That was the Categorical Imperative, and Cecilia believed in it.
  • Extract from : « Cecilia » by F. Marion Crawford
  • This is what Kant really means by the categorical imperative.
  • Extract from : « Edward Caldwell Moore » by Edward Moore
  • And the philosopher of the ‘categorical imperative’ miscarries as instructively as does the soldier of divine will.
  • Extract from : « Rationalism » by John Mackinnon Robertson
  • A Categorical Imperative cannot issue commands with an eye to profit or comfort.
  • Extract from : « Morals and the Evolution of Man » by Max Simon Nordau
  • The categorical imperative was supposed to determine our moral sense and the distinction between good and evil.
  • Extract from : « The Wonders of Life » by Ernst Haeckel

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