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Definition of Hypothetical imperative
1. Noun. A principle stating the action required to attain a desired goal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypothetical Imperative
Literary usage of Hypothetical imperative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the History of Modern Philosophy by Arthur Stone Dewing (1903)
"Sensuous immortality is often the hypothetical imperative of righteousness.
Political economy derives its character as a science from the fact that all its ..."
2. The Philosophy of Kant as Contained in Extracts from His Own Writings by Immanuel Kant, John Watson (1908)
"The hypothetical imperative says only that an action 263 is good relatively to
... The hypothetical imperative, which affirms the practical necessity of an ..."
3. An Ethical Philosophy of Life Presented in Its Main Outlines by Felix Adler (1918)
"By an hypothetical imperative he understands one in which the command depends
upon an "if"—if there be invisible spirits such as primitive men imagined, ..."
4. The Classical Moralists: Selections Illustrating Ethics from Socrates to by Benjamin Rand (1909)
"A hypothetical imperative states that a certain thing must be done, ...
The hypothetical imperative says only that an action is good relatively to a certain ..."
5. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"Second, the case of personal selection and decision within a whole of objective
and possibly social sanctioning, giving the " hypothetical imperative," " I ..."
6. Sociology and Ethics: The Facts of Social Life as the Source of Solutions by Edward Cary Hayes (1921)
"The generalized rational, or hypothetical, imperative has all the majesty ...
The logic of the generalized hypothetical imperative requires him so to act ..."
7. Self-realization; an Outline of Ethics by Henry Wilkes Wright (1913)
"A hypothetical imperative states that a thing must be done if something else
which is willed or at least might be willed, is to be attained. ..."
8. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"As compared with the Categorical Imperative, the hypothetical imperative denote«
mere ... To take due exercise every day is a hypothetical imperative whose ..."
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