Still the mere analysis of moral conceptions has sufficed to prove it the sole principle of morals, because this principle is seen to be a categorical Imperative, and a categorical Imperative enjoins neither more nor less than this Autonomy.
I am aware that some persons will be disposed to answer all the preceding argument by a simple denial that they can find in their consciousness any such unconditional or categorical imperative as I have been trying to exhibit.
The imperative of conscience is a "categorical imperative" (Kant).
No man with any modern psychological or historical training ought to be content to leave this extraordinary "categorical imperative" unexplained.
And if a man feels no such "categorical imperative," how can you prove to him it is there?
By this grotesque exaggeration Hermann Cohen has clearly brought to light the hollowness and weakness of Kant's Moral philosophy which culminates in the "Categorical Imperative.
Moreau's semi-humanized beasts of prey with superstitious terror, he is poking fun at Kant's "Categorical Imperative.
In imposing duties, it raises our life from the "pragmatic"[54] level of a calculating expediency to the higher plane of a categorical imperative.
Kant's categorical imperative is a mere dogma, and, like his whole theory of practical reason, rests on dogmatic and not critical grounds.
This broad cushion is snatched from under morality when we prove that Kant's categorical imperative of the practical reason is a wholly unjustified, baseless, and imaginative assumption.
As Schopenhauer says: Kant's categorical imperative is generally quoted in our day under the more modest and convenient title of "the moral law.
And the philosopher of the 'categorical imperative' miscarries as instructively as does the soldier of divine will.
But when I conceive a categorical imperative, I know at once what it contains.
Categorical Imperative is not a fact of experience.
Categorical Imperative lies in the =renunciation of all interest= by the Will when acting from a sense of duty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "categorical imperative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
