categorical imperative
绝对命令,势在必行,绝对必要条件,势在必得
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- : Ethics. the rule of Immanuel Kant that one must do only what one can will that all others should do under similar circumstances.
- : the unconditional command of conscience.
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Moreover, for America there is a fundamental imperative to act.
For Reid, the imperative has to be confirming as many of the 34 district court nominees that are in the pipeline as possible.
And that very same Roosevelt no doubt still believed it was imperative for us to make America “fairly radical for a generation.”
Many lessons and commentaries are in the imperative voice, but not all.
None of it has lessened my belief in Zionism or the imperative of Israel as a home and sanctuary for Jews.
Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.
Nature, ever buoyant and imperative, does her best to remedy the ills created by "Man's inhumanity to Man."
For it was mother Martha and not her daughter who had obeyed Mrs. Cecil's imperative: "Come here!"
Let nothing, but the most imperative duty, call you out upon your reception day.
Only an hour was given to St. Albans, much less than we had planned, but our late start made it imperative that we move onward.