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First formulation of the Categorical Imperative?

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What is an example of the first formulation of categorical imperative?
The maxim 'stealing is permissible' is a self contradiction as if it were universalised, and everyone was stealing everything, property would no longer exist, so it wouldn't be stealing.
What is kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative?
Treat humanity, yourself or another, always as a end in it self never simply as a means.
What is categorical imperative?
The English term 'categorical imperative' means the moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty
What is Kant's Categorical Imperative?
It is the universal law that will comply with all people that can rationally think and make a morally correct decision that is not based upon their own desires. To not cause harm or inflict damage...
Who first developed categorical logic?
Categorical logic originated with Bill Lawvere's Functorial Semantics of Algebraic Theories (1963), and Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets (1964)