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Full Idea
What does the claim that there exists in us a categorical imperative say of the man who asserts it? …that 'what is worthy of respect in me is that I know how to obey - and things ought to be no different with you'.
Gist of Idea
The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §187)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Beyond Good and Evil', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1973], p.92