Usually means: Universal moral law; absolute duty.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. categorical imperative: Merriam-Webster
  2. categorical imperative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. categorical imperative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. categorical imperative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. categorical imperative: Vocabulary.com
  6. categorical imperative: Wiktionary
  7. categorical imperative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. categorical imperative: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. categorical imperative: Dictionary.com
  10. Categorical Imperative, Categorical imperative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. categorical imperative: Rhymezone
  12. categorical imperative: FreeDictionary.org
  13. categorical imperative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. categorical imperative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Categorical Imperative, categorical imperative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Categorical Imperative, categorical imperative: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Categorical Imperative: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Categorical Imperative, Imperative, Categorical: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. categorical imperative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See categorical_imperatives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (categorical imperative)

noun:  (ethics) A fundamental ethical principle intended as a guide for determining whether any contemplated action is morally right, based on the concept that an action is good or bad in and of itself regardless of what the actor's aims or preferences are.

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