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Often appears with: natural law and higher law · fear vs morality · duty, conscience, and obligation · categorical imperative · a priori moral law
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Kant insists moral imperatives may only be categorical if not secretly grounded in fear or self-interest, so he proposes an a priori inquiry into the possibility of a truly unconditional command.
the means to him who wills the end is in both cases analytical. Thus there is no difficulty in regard to the possibility of an imperative of this kind either. On the other hand, the question how the imperative of morality is possible, is undoubtedly one, the only one, demanding a solution, as this is not at all hypothetical, and the objective necessity which it presents cannot rest on any hypothesis, as is the case …