The cold war led directly to the innovations behind modern computing and personal technology, and the internet, of course.But the fact that the military contributed directly to a discovery does not mean that whatever military imperative led to the contribution can claim to have boosted economic growth on net.
The cruel logic of the revenue imperative led Leopold to transform his nascent administrative system into a machine designed to extract not only the maximum amount of natural resources from the land but also the maximum output of labour from the people.
Moreover, our consciousness of moral imperatives leads us to recognize our freedom (rational causality), or at least to recognize our representation of ourselves as having rational causality (A 547/B 547/B
Their economic imperatives lead to an intently service-oriented culture.
But the moral imperative that leads him to make renegade decisions -- like denying a kidney transplant to a young man who burned his own out with cocaine -- can be unrelenting, and distasteful.
Rather than permitting the likes of George Osborne to drill with impunity, it only increases the imperative to lead from the front.
Calm and composed in person, he is equally at ease talking at the World Economic Forum about South Africa's "moral and commercial imperative" to lead innovation in clean-coal technology as he is addressing employees outside RBCT's offices, as monkeys hang from the branches of the tropical garden and eye the roast chicken served on paper plates.
The categorical imperative will lead an inquirer to obtain his cognitive goals.
It's imperative Apple lead in this transition or risk ceding leadership in media to others such as Amazon, Real, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. Lala will help Apple protect their media franchise from encroachment by accelerating their cloud efforts.
This imperative has led the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen to enter the law business in a big way, with 3,500 attorneys on its European payroll, and still more in Asia.
