| 1. | " There
are two main types of imperatives: Categorical imperatives and
conditional imperatives.
* A categorical imperative is an a priori statement, formulated by
pure reason whose motive is usually imposed by duty."
| Source: | van Gigch, John P. "Deconstructing the Problem of Comparing the Conflicting Imperatives of Technology and Sustainability" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 16.5 Sept. 1 1999: 429
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| 2. | "... an end
set by natural inclination, or an a priori law of reason (the
Categorical Imperative), which determines the will immediately (G
400/65)."
| Source: | Atterton, Peter. "The Proximity Between Levinas and Kant: The Primacy of Pure Practical Reason" Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40.3 Sept. 22 1999: 244-262
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| 3. | " Zhu Xi
subsumed them in the same concept of li, which as a result became a
"categorical imperative" for the individual: to obey
one's duty within the Confucian social hierarchy was to conform to
the laws of the cosmos.(93)
The philosophy of Wang..."
| Source: | Chong, Woei Lien. "COMBINING MARX WITH KANT: THE PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF LI ZEHOU" Philosophy East and West 49.2 Apr. 1 1999: 120
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| 4. | " For Kant, the categorical imperative or
maxim has the power of "moral law" in the sense of
"duty," i.e., doing something for its own sake."
| Source: | Khalil, Elias L. "The gift paradox: complex selves and symbolic good" Review of Social Economy 62.3 Sept. 1 2004: 379-393
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| 5. | " He also supported
redistributive taxation for the sake of providing for the poor.(19)
Moreover, the Categorical Imperative centers on the status of the agent
who performs the duty rather than the beneficiary of such duties."
| Source: | Attas, Daniel. "Freedom and Self-Ownership" Social Theory and Practice 26.1 Mar. 22 2000: 1
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| 6. | " The value and the meaning of the
so-called a priori categorical imperative lies in the demand on
individuals to carry out the duty of constructing the highest principle:
maintaining and developing the human species."
| Source: | Zehou, Li. "SUBJECTIVITY AND "SUBJECTALITY": A RESPONSE" Philosophy East and West 49.2 Apr. 1 1999: 174
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| 7. | "... the Metaphysics of Morals, p. 30. It
should be noticed also that a different way of interpreting the Golden
Rule could be derived from the second formulation of Kant's
categorical imperative."
| Source: | Wang, Qingjie James. "THE GOLDEN RULE AND INTERPERSONAL CARE--FROM A CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE" Philosophy East and West 49.4 Oct. 1 1999: 415
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| 8. | " To these grounding possibilities Berlin (1969,
127) immediately and explicitly adds utilitarianism, natural rights
theories, the categorical imperative, and the social contract tradition."
| Source: | GALSTON, WILLIAM A. "Value Pluralism and Liberal Political Theory" American Political Science Review 93.4 Dec. 1 1999: 769
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| 9. | " Conversations), Diogenes, 1996 (not
listed in Crockett's bibliography), where he extols Practical over
Theoretical Reason and the potentially redemptive power of the
Categorical Imperative (Vol. 2, p. 297), although he recognizes the
momentous human failures in living up to its injunctions."
| Source: | HELBLING, ROBERT E. "UNDERSTANDING FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99.2 Apr. 1 2000: 304
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| 10. | " Plato's Forms, Hegel's Spirit,
Kant's universally applicable Categorical Imperative based on pure
reason, Enlightenment liberalism predicated on inalienable rights, human
dignity, autonomous..."
| Source: | Peerenboom, Randall. "THE LIMITS OF IRONY: RORTY AND THE CHINA CHALLENGE" Philosophy East and West 50.1 Jan. 1 2000: 56
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| 11. | "... ("good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be
avoided") as a moral imperative ("ought") derived from
speculative reason's identification of man's good with his
natural end, or telos ("is")."
| Source: | Brubaker, Stanley C. "In Defense of Natural Law" American Political Science Review 94.1 Mar. 1 2000: 174
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| 12. | " He knows, in particular, that Kant could
appeal to the ideal of universalizability (in the form of the
categorical imperative) as the very form of reason, only because the
Enlightenment philosopher saw reason itself as the constitutive feature
of the noumenal subject."
| Source: | Gaon, Stella. "Pluralizing universal 'man': the legacy of transcendentalism and teleology in Habermas's discourse ethics" Review of Politics 60.4 Sept. 22 1998: 685-688
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| 13. | " The second moral philosophy, attributed
to Immanuel Kant, is The Categorical Imperative, which says Act only on
the maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should
become universal law."
| Source: | Hyatt, Laura. "Does Your Organization Have a Conscience?" Nursing Homes 49.4 Apr. 1 2000: 14
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| 14. | " Following Boris Uspenskii, the authors argue
persuasively that Ivan's use of highly theatrical punishments and
tortures derived from his unswerving commitment to his duty as divine
representative on earth."
| Source: | Kivelson, Valerie A. "Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power" Canadian Journal of History 39.2 Aug. 1 2004: 343-346
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| 15. | " MacIntyre
is not against principles in ethics, but he rejects any attempt to
justify them in abstract reason, such as Kant's categorical
imperative."
| Source: | Gula, Richard M. "Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 878-881
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| 16. | " Lawbook Exchange 2002)
(1797) ("The Penal Law is a Categorical Imperative; and woe to him
who creeps through the serpent-windings of Utilitarianism to discover
some advantage that may discharge him..."
| Source: | Seidman, Louis Michael. "Left out" Law and Contemporary Problems 67.3 June 22 2004: 23-33
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| 17. | "
The fact is that the world community has never been able to agree
upon either a divine basis for human rights or a basis derived from
natural law."
| Source: | Schulz, William F. "The Humanist Basis for Human Rights" Humanist 60.5 Sept. 1 2000: 25
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| 18. | "
The participants in these deep-seated struggles for control of
sovereign power(s) employed arguments from "history, custom, common
law, natural law, civil law, divine law, or the appeal to
necessity" in a creative, nonideological fashion."
| Source: | Cramsie, John. "Orr, D. Alan Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War" History: Review of New Books 31.4 June 22 2003: 154-155
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| 19. | " In effect,
Jesus's ethic, Walsh suggests, foreshadows the categorical
imperative of Kant: duties are obligatory whether or not they bring us
happiness."
| Source: | Storm, Douglas. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 131
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| 20. | " If
we think of something better tomorrow, we'll amend our
conclusion."
Unlike Plato's ideals--his other-world-models of perfect
forms--and unlike Kant's "categorical imperative,"
Habermas doesn't appeal to metaphysics; he doesn't base his
formulation on anything that is so removed from reality."
| Source: | Shaw, Bill. "Ties That Bind" American Business Law Journal 37.3 Mar. 22 2000: 563
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| 21. | "
Rather than measure politics by ideological standards, which are
defined by either conservative or revolutionary categorical imperatives
that ignore the real and discursive walls between..."
| Source: | Manlove, Clifford T. "Beyond the Left and the Right" College Literature 27.2 Mar. 22 2000: 193
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| 22. | "... [although his] analysis of the moral has much to recommend it ... the
doctrine of the categorical imperative really will not do.
Perhaps it was Warnock's headmistressy authorial voice that
caused..."
| Source: | Teichman, Jenny. "Mary Warnock: the uses & abuses of philosophy" New Criterion 18.4 Dec. 1 1999: 26
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| 23. | "... on
a speech act that would at once be "categorical" and
"imperative." It would be a language productive of and
sacrificed to the interruptions, the contingencies, the falls of
language."
| Source: | MIESZKOWSKI, JAN. "Breaking the Laws of Language: Freedom and History in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 111
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| 24. | "... of the
multitude" (383): Socrates' refusal to escape after Athens had
condemned him "was not based on an appeal to a categorical
imperative demanding passive obedience."
| Source: | LENZNER, STEVEN J. "Strauss's Farabi, Scholarly Prejudice, and Philosophic Politics" Perspectives on Political Science 28.4 Sept. 22 1999: 194
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| 25. | "... money, and secretly
feared disgracing myself in New York, among the high-browsing
categorical imperatives, the Gogols, Babels and Kafkas?"
| Source: | Leonard, John. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Nation 270.23 June 12 2000: 20
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