Sentence examples similar to categorical command from inspiring English sources

If existential consolation is what you're looking for, you might better find it, Leiter declares, in "philosophical reflection … meditation … therapeutic treatment," all relatively harmless compared to the "potentially harmful brew of categorical commands and insulation from evidence".

Kant's ethics is a secularized mysticism insofar as it rests on categorical commands and duty for duty's sake, which is to say: regardless of any earthly desire or interest (1970).

That's a categorical statement, but it's true".

Despite this categorical instruction, the Vatican is now overturning it.

A categorical imperative commands unconditionally that I should act in some way.

A categorical imperative "commands a certain line of conduct directly, without assuming or being conditional on any further goal to be reached by that conduct" (4:416).

It is an imperative because it commands and constrains us; it is a categorical imperative because it commands and constrains us absolutely, with ultimate authority and without regard to our preferences or empirical features or circumstances.

Sergei Lavrov's statement was categorical.

The trend across categorical variables was tested with the nptrend command, which is an extension of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

Islam's categorical imperative for both traditional and fundamentalist Muslims —"commanding right and forbidding wrong" — is being transformed.

That statement is hardly a categorical denial.