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... played by the theory of evolution in this view of ethics? So far as I can discern, the ethical system of the Stoics, which is essentially intuitive, and reverences the categorical imperative as strongly as that of any later moralists, might have been just what it was if they had held any other theory; whether that of special creation, on the one side, or that of the eternal existence of the present order, ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... e.g., "Exogamy and the Mating of Cousins," in Essays Presented to E.B. Tylor, 1907, p. 53. "In many departments of primitive life we find a naive desire to, as it were, assist Nature, to affirm what is normal, and later to confirm it by the categorical imperative of custom and law. This tendency still flourishes in our civilized communities, and, as the worship of the normal, is often a deadly foe to the abnormal and eccentric, and too often ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... from the cold glitter, the cruel and mysterious sublimity of the stars when they are many! With these we have no Sapphic associations; they make us think rather of Kant who could hit on nothing else to compare with his categorical imperative, perhaps because he found in both the same baffling incomprehensibility and the same fierce actuality. Such ultimate feelings are sensations ...

— The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana

Words linked to "Categorical imperative" : moral principle