EP1: Imperatives suggest that something will either be good
to do or not to do, but the will does not necessarily do it just because it
appears to be good. (24)
IP1: The will is capable of selection
EP2: Imperatives express the general relation of objective
laws of willing to the rational will. (24)
EP3: All imperatives determine whether an action is
necessary to the good part of the will. (25)
EP4: An imperative hypothetical suggests an action is either
possible or actual, and says that a good is a means to something else; it is
not commanded as an absolute. (25-26)
IP2: The will can choose to follow or not to follow an
imperative hypothetical.
EP5: Imperative categorical shows that the action is good in
itself and necessary for the will to agree with reason. (25)
EP6: A will might not perform an imperative practical/categorical,
because it might not know that the action commanded is good, and its maxims
might not agree with the objective principles of practical reason. (25)
IP3: The will does not always follow a categorical
imperative.
EP7: However, there is one type of an imperative categorical
that must always be obeyed, and must be followed even if the will is opposed to
it because it is universally true. This is the law of morality. (26)
IP4: Thus the will always has to perform this imperative of
morality no matter what.
