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  1. A technical term in Kant's moral philosophy
  2. designating the supreme principle of morality
  3. for rational beings. The imperative orders us
  4. to act only in such a way that we can wish a
  5. maxim, or subjective principle, of our action
  6. to be a universal law.
  7.