Meanings of the categorical imperative in English

All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.

With the categorical imperative in mind, many of Walter's outbursts start to make sense.

His impartial spectator was the forerunner of the categorical imperative.

At this point people always come up with a counter example that makes the categorical imperative sound absurd.

Did any of them discover the categorical imperative, like the old bachelor of Königsberg, who, if he was not a saint, deserved to be one?

Neither did Kant when he devised the Categorical Imperative.

The categorical imperative which occasionally found favor with the old Romans is, however, terribly unpopular with the Germans.

They were playing " The Categorical Imperative" that evening at the Little Theatre in Unter den Linden.

The categorical imperative informs us that we must never lie and yet who could in conscience reveal the hiding place?

The categorical imperative says your actions must be checked against the following principle: what would happen if everyone did what you do?

"Well, what is your objection to the Categorical Imperative?"

One of the categorical imperatives of puberty that applies even to young monsters is that nobody over the age of twenty knows anything.

The categorical imperative would be that which represented an action as necessary of itself without reference to another end, i. e., as objectively necessary.