Concept
Categorical imperative
Overview
central concept in Kantian moral philosophy
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Whoever may like to convince himself how Kant's disciples, little by little, totally forgot and ignored the real nature of the foundation and derivation which their master originally gave to the moral law, should read a very interesting essay in Reinhold's _Beitrage zur Uebersicht der Philosophie im Anfange des_ 19. _Jahrhunderts_, No. 2, 1801. In it, on pp. 105 and 106, it is maintained "that in the Kantian…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
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Now, as regards the Categorical Imperative, Kant never asserted it as a fact, but, on the contrary, protests repeatedly against this being done; he merely served it up as the result of an exceedingly curious combination of thoughts, because he stood in need of a sheet-anchor for morality. Our professors of philosophy, however, never sifted the matter to the bottom, so that it seems as if no one before me had ever…
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
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Now there must be such an end and a categorical imperative corresponding to it. For since there are free actions, there must also be ends to which as an object those actions are directed. Amongst these ends there must also be some which are at the same time (that is, by their very notion) duties.
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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Philosophers who discussed Categorical imperative
- Immanuel Kant
- Simone Weil
- R. M. Hare
- Robert Nozick
- Bernard Williams
- Beyond Good and Evil
- The Right and the Good
Related ideas
- Macmillan Publishers
- Instrumental and intrinsic value
- Game theory
- Immanuel Kant
- Feeling
- Autonomy
- Motivation
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Maxim (philosophy)
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Slavery
- Deontology
- Empirical evidence
- Utilitarianism
- Metaphysics of Morals
- Causality
- Social equality
- Reason
- Morality
- Free will
- Determinism
- Kantian ethics
- Theoretical philosophy
- Rationalism
Place in the tradition
Part of Applied ethics.