Translation of "Kategorischer imperativ" in English

Review: how is a categorical imperative possible?

As in the case of other democratic rights, this is not some sort of categorical imperative.

It was imperative for the EESC’s six-monthly programme to anticipate the work of the EP.

Next week, we're getting into Kant's categorical imperative, which says something totally different, and according to ethical egoism, being selfish is the only true morality.

In the global economy to which we belong, competitiveness is a fixed imperative.

Today, the sweeping threat to the livelihood of nature itself that has come about through modern lifestyles and economic systems must be offset by the principle of sustainability, a principle that can be grasped from a Christian perspective as a categorical imperative of contemporary custodianship of Creation.

This ought to is not a "petitio principium", not a categorical imperative, but rather merely the detection of a difference: that between that state that reason strives for with its means as the right way of coexistence of humans in the "entelechia" of the essence of man, and the actual form of coexistence at any given time, there exists a significant difference.

Aided by a natural evolutionary process of production and communication, the world today is a Global Village – its economy is globalized and the Western world is its guide. Democracy has become a categorical imperative for peace, progress and prosperity for the people of the world.

The question thus: how a categorical imperative is possible, can be answered, to be sure, so far as one can declare the sole presupposition under which it alone is possible, namely the idea of freedom, also so far as one can look into the necessity of this presupposition, which is sufficient for the practical use of reason, i.e. for the conviction of the validity of this imperative, therefore also of the moral law, but how this presupposition itself is possible can never be looked into by any human reason.

The knowledge of duty, according to Kant, is a consequence of the perception by the subject that he is a rational being and therefore is bound to obey what Kant called "categorical imperative": the need to respect all beings as rational of "ends in themselves".

This necessary fact of its matter-of-course-status is not a categorical imperative, no "petitio principium", such as even in a "duty of love" – rather, it is the independent development of the capability of reason as a "matter of course" (in every sense), which does not admit another possibility.

This she distinguished from 'philosophical truth', which can be understood as truth we can arrive at a priori, by using our own reason, a truth not dependent upon experience: 2+2=4, for instance, or Kant's categorical imperative that a person should always be treated as an end, not as a means.

No categorical imperative, no ethical code, can serve as a basis for the real practical right.

For by this is found that its principle must be a categorical imperative, this, however, commands nothing more or less than just this autonomy.

The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of the greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and He is He.

Just this "will in itself" shall speak to the individual as "God's voice," as the "voice of conscience," as categorical imperative, and so on.

No absolute morality, no duty, no categorical imperative, no idea of the good, can teach man what is good, bad, right, or wrong.

The question of how a categorical imperative is possible can be answered so far as you can provide the sole presupposition under which the imperative is possible.

No categorical imperative stands behind them with a whip and forces man to follow them.

In your warrant of apprehension is located under life slogan: „the categorical imperative “

The Enlightenment philosopher Kant expressed this in his "categorical imperative".

And therefore does not acquire the categorical imperative which is the wanted to attribute.

The categorical imperative sometimes chooses circuitous ways for its triumph!

The highest generalization of these norms is the "categorical imperative" of Kant.

These people began, of course, with Kant and the categorical imperative.

The categorical imperative is a synthetic practical proposition a priori.

There is a categorical imperative to which we have admitted to right.

Kant’s categorical imperative reprises the biblical Golden Rule.

Only the categorical imperative reads as a practical law.

I believe less and less in the categorical imperative and desire it less and less.

Imagine asking a Kantian to add just a bit of utilitarian calculation to the categorical imperative.

The categorical imperative, it found, gave it too abstract and unreliable a security.

Lenin observed that Marxists do not regard the right of self-determination as a categorical imperative:

So it is a categorical imperative for our Parliament to confront the issues and contribute to solving the unemployment emergency.

The Baltic States, however, which are neighbours of Königsberg, home of the philosophy of the categorical imperative, are failing to respect this law.

It is not certain whether a draft constitution will be the final result, but what we can be sure of is that the Convention must direct all its efforts at what we - borrowing the expression of that great European, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant - might call the Convention's categorical imperative, that every one of its proposals must also be capable of becoming a basic component of a European constitution.