num_pages: 104
description: "We shall therefore have to investigate a priori the possibility of a categorical imperative, as we have not in this case the advantage of its reality being given in experience, so that [elucidation of] its possibility should be requisite only for its explanation, not for its establishment. In the meantime it may be discerned beforehand that the categorical imperative alone has the purport of a practical law."
language: English
title: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
titlecomplete: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (Great Books in Philosophy)
genres: German Literature, Classics, School, Metaphysics, Philosophy, 18th Century, College, Read For School, Academic, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 19780
series: Groundbook of the Metaphysics of Morals
publisher: Prometheus