categorical imperatives

== English == === Noun === categorical imperatives plural of categorical imperative 2002, Immanuel Kant, W. Hastie (translator), The Metaphysics of Morals, in The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence, page 29 (originally published in 1797) According to these Categorical Imperatives, certain actions are allowed or disallowed as being morally possible or impossible […].