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.
From this, Kant devises a test for working out whether acting on a particular maxim is right or wrong. The test, the âCategorical Imperativeâ, is âAct only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal lawâ (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals). (An âimperativeâ is just a command.