categorical imperative in English

noun
1
(in Kantian ethics) an unconditional moral obligation that is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose.
Since only free action can have genuine moral worth, the categorical imperative must be not only the supreme imperative of reason, but also the supreme law of morality.

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1. 12 Murder violates the categorical imperative.

2. 13 There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative.

3. Kant gives three versions three formulations of the categorical imperative.

4. The overarching principle of special and differential treatment remains a categorical imperative.

5. 8 Perhaps the exemplar of this surrealist categorical imperative was Antonin Artaud.

6. 21 To pass unscathed into the inner sanctum of the wave is the categorical imperative of surfing.

7. 14 Kant's categorical imperative procedure, Adam Smith's impartial spectator, and Rousseau's general will are primary examples of representations of a moral point of view.