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Definition of Categorical imperative
1. Noun. The moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty.
Definition of Categorical imperative
1. Noun. (ethics) A fundamental ethical principle intended as a guide for determining whether any contemplated action is morally right, developed by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Categorical Imperative
Literary usage of Categorical imperative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introductory Study of Ethics by Warner Fite (1903)
"This is to be found in the famous ' categorical imperative,' which is formulated
as follows ... And this is the meaning of the categorical imperative. ..."
2. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"Such a presentation is the basis of the 'categorical imperative' in each of the
three forms in which Kant states it. (1) 'Act only according to that maxim ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Kant essays to prove the existence of a categorical imperative a priori from the
idea ... This, then, is the categorical imperative, to be enunciated in the ..."
4. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"It is this latter demand for ideal conformity, this need to be ideally complete,
that is felt as moral necessity and is called the categorical imperative. ..."
5. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"A third form of intuitive judgment which demands notice here, is that known as "
the categorical imperative of conscience," and is expressed under the ..."
6. The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist by William Patten (1920)
"... of Compulsion—Mutual Rights and Mutual Obligations and the categorical imperative
to Existence—The Egoism and Altruism of Individuality—The Ethics and ..."
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