"categorical imperatives" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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)",
          "text": "According to these Categorical Imperatives, certain actions are allowed or disallowed as being morally possible or impossible […]."
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          "ref": "2001, Roger Scruton, Christopher Janaway, German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, page 75",
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