A phrase in Kant’s Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
(1785, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals) that I think might have been more aptly expressed is the following:
“Alle Imperativen werden durch ein Sollen ausgedrückt” — "All
imperatives are expressed by an ‘Ought'" (Chapter 2, 14th paragraph),
which I think might have been better expressed as “Alle Imperativen
werden durch ein Müssen ausgedrückt” — "All imperatives are expressed by a ‘Must.’" That is to say, if an action is imperative, it not merely “ought to”
or “should” be performed, it “must” be performed, if a moral duty to perform
that action is to be complied with.
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