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There is only one categorical imperative: act only on a maxim you could at the same time will to become a universal law
Drawn from what Immanuel Kant said
What Immanuel Kant actually said
- Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg
There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Where this was said
↗Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 1873)gutenberg.org
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