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)
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Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative.†
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Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991
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All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.†
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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932
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Macalister reminded him of the Categorical Imperative.†
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W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915
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Kant formulates this 'categorical imperative' in several ways.†
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Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991
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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.†
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Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991
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Well, what is your objection to the Categorical Imperative?'†
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W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915