The Fab Four is a California-based tribute band paying homage to The Beatles. Founded in 1997 by Ron McNeil, John Lennon impersonator and President of The Fab Four Corp., the group began performing Beatles music throughout Southern California. The band'...
A moral imperative is a principle originating inside a person's mind that compels that person to act. It is a kind of categorical imperative, as defined by Immanuel Kant. Kant took the imperative to be a dictate of pure reason, in its practical aspect. Not following the moral law was seen to be self-defeating and thus contrary to reason.
Deontological (or duty-oriented) theories of ethics (e.g., divine-command theory, Kantian formalism) assume that the first task of ethics is to determine what we are obligated to do.By doing our duty, we do what is valuable (not the other way around).ivine-command theory says that something is good for no other reason than that God commands it. Kant's ethics is called formalism because it focuses on the form or structure of a moral judgment (the fact that all moral directives have the form you ought to do X).