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.
Actually, it is deeper than conscience, because our conscience can be mistaken. Conscience arises because of certain structure of human consciousness -- it is the structure of human reason and human will. The moral law is not given to us from outside. Kant does not associate the moral law with what God commands.Nor with civil law. Nor with what society recommends. The moral law is nothing other than rational will -- the will which is entirely devoted to, or guided by impartiality and universality of reason.The nature of reason itself is universal -- this is made most clear in logic, in mathematics, and in science.ctually, it is deeper than conscience, because our conscience can be mistaken. Conscience arises because of certain structure of human consciousness -- it is the structure of human reason and human will. The moral law is not given to us from outside. Kant does not associate the moral law with what God commands.