categorical imperativein a sentence
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Kant agreed that his categorical imperative would require one, if asked, to tell a known murderer the location of his prey.
categorical imperative = the moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty (Immanuel Kant)
- Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative.† (source)
- Kant formulates this 'categorical imperative' in several ways.† (source)
- Kant also formulates the 'categorical imperative' in this way: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.† (source)
- All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.† (source)
- Macalister reminded him of the Categorical Imperative.† (source)
- Well, what is your objection to the Categorical Imperative?† (source)