Assertion: categorical imperative | /r/CapableOf | prescribe action
Facets:
value: to the extent
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Categorical imperatives, belonging to the world of things in themselves, as the truly moral imperatives, must prescribe actions which are intrinsically worthy, i.e., ends in themselves, in order that they be a priori.
text: This sequence of formulations thus shows that the normative force of the categorical imperative is grounded on recognition of a necessary end, thus that the distance between Kant's mature formulation and his initial formulation of twenty years earlier is not as great as it initially seems, and that far from proscribing actions in behalf of particular, contingent ends, the categorical imperative prescribes such actions to the extent that such ends are freely chosen and are consistent with universal law.