The Categorical imperative (n.) is an idea of ‘impersonal duty’ that is dangerous to life and a recipe for decadence, destroying any man who works, thinks, or feels without inner necessity or deep personal desire.
The Categorical imperative (n.) is dangerous to life. What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automaton of duty?
The Categorical imperative (n.) is German decadence as a philosophy.
The Categorical imperative (n.) reeks of cruelty.
The Categorical imperative (n.) is selfishness: to regard one's own judgment as universal law is a blind, paltry and modest selfishness.
The Categorical imperative (n.) smells of cruelty — like the whole moral world of guilt and duty, whose beginnings were soaked in blood.