Assertion: categorical imperative | /r/CapableOf | express practical law
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text: For the time being, however, this much can be seen: that the categorical imperative alone expresses a practical LAW, and that the others can indeed one and all be called principles of the will, but not laws; since what it is necessary to do merely for attaining a discretionary purpose can be regarded as in itself contingent, and we can always be rid of the prescription if we give up the purpose, Whereas the unconditional command leaves the will no free discretion with regard to the opposite, and hence alone carries with it that necessity which we demand for a law.