... pass on pleasure to impartial rational spectators; and thus a good will is necessary for one to even be worthy of happiness. The idea of an objective principle, required for a will, is called a command, from the formula of the imperative, being the relation of an objective reason to a will. ... application of imperatives is happiness. From this Kant argues that there is but one categorical imperative, being: "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Examples presented by Kant to back his argument state that, universal law ....

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