- CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
- Kant's name for the self-derived moral law, "universal and binding on every rational will, a commandment of the autonomous, one and universal reason."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
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