☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant's foundational principle of morality and rights: act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Provides the philosophical basis for deontological theories of rights.

Etymology: Latin 'categoricus' (unconditional) + 'imperativus' (commanding) · Category: Philosophy of Rights · Source: Immanuel Kant, 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' (1785)
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