Assertion: categorical imperative | /r/HasProperty | theorem iii
Facets:
Source sentences:
text: In his Critique of Practical Reason of 1788 (1996), Kant derives a similar formulation of the categorical imperative from the initial premises that any practical law must be necessary, but that any objective for action is empirical and contingent—a circumstance that leaves only the form of a law to furnish content for the categorical imperative (theorem III, Kant 1788, in Kant 1900, 5:27; in Kant 1996, p. 160).