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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Author:Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott We shall therefore have to investigate a priori the possibility of a categorical imperative, as we have not in this case the advantage of its reality being given in experience, so that [the elucidation of] its possibility should be requisite only for its explanation, not for its establishment. In the meantime it may be discerned beforehand that ... more »the categorical imperative alone has the purport of a practical law.« less