| Arguments from incredulity wallow in a vulgar populism that elevates appeal to unlearned prejudice to a categorical imperative. |
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| Yes, in Kantian terms, respect for autonomy is closely related to the categorical imperative of treating people as ends and not means. |
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| We spent hours discussing subjects like religion, race relations and the categorical imperative. |
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| It wasn't a lifestyle choice, it was a categorical imperative, to make the world less indecent. |
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| Since only free action can have genuine moral worth, the categorical imperative must be not only the supreme imperative of reason, but also the supreme law of morality. |
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| The categorical imperative of her political theory might be phrased: Thou shalt not be a shlemihl. |
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| There are no definable formulae, but a categorical imperative for artistic exigency, fuelling constant critical examination. |
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| The rarefied atmosphere of the categorical imperative can seldom sustain life for long. |
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| Nietzsche, and Spinoza challenge any transcendence, any categorical imperative, any external law. |
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| There has never been so concise and definitive a debunking of Kant's categorical imperative. |
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| With much sapience, he ruled that the categorical imperative of the situation was that charity begins at home and the guilty party must pay for his own beer that evening. |
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| The categorical imperative supports active euthanasia since no one would willfully universalize a rule which condemns people to unbearable pain before death. |
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| Applying Kant's categorical imperative to a relationship problem and then Hindusim to a midlife crisis as though they were creams for different parts of the body may strike thoughtful people as contrived. |
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| Yours is a case that turns the categorical imperative on its head. |
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| The construction of efficient, legitimate and democratic world governance is a categorical imperative for the coming decades, just as the construction of Europe was a categorical imperative for the previous generation. |
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| But this governance exercise quickly degenerated into a cash grab exercise, when deficit and debt reduction became the categorical imperative. |
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| Interestingness is the categorical imperative of Sehgal's world. |
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| What if terrorism was primarily a consequence of this new categorical imperative that is imposed by market forces and is part of its logic: the suppression of borders. |
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| The Baltic States, however, which are neighbours of Königsberg, home of the philosophy of the categorical imperative, are failing to respect this law. |
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| This is a categorical imperative, and I must remind you of the need to approve the Commission's proposal on agricultural aid in developing countries. |
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| As this is a categorical imperative, they will do whatever is necessary. |
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| It argues that the two main formulations of the categorical imperative are relativized to agents according to their beliefs. |
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| Economic development was, indeed, a categorical imperative, but it should be left to other bodies, such as the United Nations Development Programme or reformed Bretton Woods institutions. |
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