CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categorical imperative mean? 

• CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE (noun)
  The noun CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE has 1 sense:

1. the moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty

  Familiarity information: CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE (noun)

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Meaning:

The moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("categorical imperative" is a kind of...):

moral principle (the principle that conduct should be moral)