Sentences with phrase «categorical ethical imperative»

This sort of concept is» likely to be based on some transcendent universal such as subjective religious experience or a categorical ethical imperative.

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Therefore, in a context like this, `'... the ethical imperative can be quite categorical, an obligation of conscience without any ifs or buts, not hypothetical but unconditional.

He applied that same beautiful and scrupulously pragmatic clarity of thought to the famous ethical conundrum most forcefully postulated by Immanuel Kant: How can there be an ethical system without an ultimate authority, without the categorical imperative of an ought — in short, without God?

Once they have some theory under their belts, they apply their knowledge of utilitarianism and the categorical imperative to the ethical dilemmas confronting a group of strangers working together to survive in a zombie apocalypse.

While one advocate calls the aversion to allowing machines to kill the «yuck» factor, a panel of ethicists and philosophers illuminated what this difference is really about: the skeptics (like myself) are advocating a utilitarian ethical scheme (the greatest good for the greatest number), while the proponents are applying Kant's categorical imperative that no human being should be used as an instrument.