Sentence examples for hypothetical imperative from inspiring English sources

These properties correspond, respectively, to Kant's two imperatives of practical reason.Conformity to the categorical imperative renders us autonomous, and conformity to the hypothetical imperative renders us efficacious.

For Kant the moral law is a categorical, not a hypothetical, imperative.

This, for example, is a hypothetical imperative: if you want coffee, then go to the cafe.

It is to be contrasted with a hypothetical imperative, which does depend on a person's ends.

But not any command in this form counts as a hypothetical imperative in Kant's sense.

A hypothetical imperative is thus a command in a conditional form.

Yet her comparison, in a well-known paper (Morality As a System of Hypothetical Imperatives, 1972) between Immanuel Kant's view of moral law as "inescapable" in some special way, and the demands of etiquette, was intended to argue that people who follow either morality or etiquette without questioning them "are relying on an illusion, as if trying to give the moral 'ought' a magic force".

Let's now turn to Kant's explanation of the normative authority of hypothetical imperatives.

At nearly the same level of generality is the principle underlying all "hypothetical imperatives".

Teufel (2011) reads the two theses as hypothetical imperatives, imposed upon reflective judgment by practical reason.

Corresponding to material principles, on Kant's view, are what he calls hypothetical imperatives.