Your judgments are very categorical, Uncle Isak.

It is from that viewpoint that we underline the categorical imperative of the principles of irreversibility and transparency for all nuclear disarmament measures and the need to develop further adequate and efficient verification capabilities.

So when he gives me his final paper, in which he argues that the categorical imperative is perhaps too uncompromising to deal with the conflict that affects our everyday and challenges me to tell him whether therefore we are condemned to moral failure,

Philosophies do not just give a little here and there, blurring over the difficult bits in the hope that everything will work out in the end. Imagine asking a Kantian to add just a bit of utilitarian calculation to the categorical imperative.

Moral philosophy has taken two very different approaches to this question. For some, the goal is to find universal principles from which to derive moral judgments Kant s categorical imperative, Bentham s utilitarian principle, and John Rawls s veil of ignorance are some of the best known examples.

55. Concern was expressed regarding the categorical manner in which the paragraph was formulated.

Costa Rica wished to reiterate its categorical condemnation of terrorism, which no motivation could justify.

So when he gives me his final paper, in which he argues that the categorical imperative is perhaps too uncompromising to deal with the conflict that affects our everyday and challenges me to tell him whether therefore we are condemned to moral failure, I say, I don't know.

Europe s Iranian Imperative

The Adaptation Imperative

Europe s Solidarity Imperative

Islam s Democratic Imperative

The Climate Imperative

How can you not understand that this attitude of categorical denial can only make your situation worse?

Rethinking the Growth Imperative

The Anti Hunger Imperative

The Decent Work Imperative

Economic Policy s Narrative Imperative

Why is it imperative?

You lose the institutional imperative.

Doha negotiations and development imperative

Such a protocol should contain a categorical commitment by the nuclear weapon States not to improve their nuclear weapons.

C. The imperative of collective action

The debate to date has sadly been characterized by categorical rejections on the one hand and theological demands on the other.

The moral imperative is on the table.

I agree wholeheartedly that that is imperative.

Hence, international cooperation is an imperative for development.

It is imperative that we seize that opportunity.

That would demonstrate our collective resolve to promote peace, prosperity and hope for all and our categorical rejection of intolerance, hate and discrimination.

Furthermore, there is a pattern in all these depositions, proceeding from an initial full and free admission of the facts to a categorical denial.

It is imperative for you to act at once.

It is imperative for you to act at once.

It is imperative for you to finish by Sunday.

The imperative for collective action strengthening the United Nations

That is undoubtedly an imperative norm of international law.

It is imperative that these services be culturally appropriate.

As to article 11, the representative said that his delegation would prefer to have more general provisions aiming to protect civilians rather than categorical demands.

It's a global imperative. We have to get this right.

This is imperative for their work to achieve positive results.

Strengthening cooperation in the context of NEPAD is therefore imperative.

Effective cooperation and monitoring of international financial transactions was imperative.

The application of the Law, in the absence of an objective, clearly demonstrable and categorical definition, is therefore likely to result in arbitrariness and wrongful detention.

Decision makers and commentators need to take into account not only the economic but also the social and political consequences of certain policy responses or the transnational costs of not taking swift and decisive decisions. If Europeans disregard Kant s categorical imperative i.e., don t do to others what you don t want others to do to you they should not be astonished if the European Union comes to a standstill or even implodes.

But it's imperative that we listen because it's undeniable and definitive.

And the moral imperative is I did what everyone should do.