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| | | NUMBER: | 1010 |
| AUTHOR: | Immanuel Kant (17241804) |
| QUOTATION: | There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | IMMANUEL KANT, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Lewis W. Beck, ed. Robert P. Wolff, section 2, p. 44 (1969). |
| SUBJECTS: | Law |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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