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.
For Kant, practical reason issues a categorical imperative that commands us to act in a accordance with the dictates of reason. There is only one categorical imperative, but Kant offers three formulations of it: 1) Act as if your maxim were a universal law of nature.f you are a dog or a tree, you do not fit into Kant's moral ontology. To find examples, think of an action and then put it through the testing procedure of the categorical imperative. Kant's favorite example is that of lying.