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GLOSSARY
Maxim:
A subjective principle of action
Kingdom of ends: The union of different rational beings in a system by common laws.
A Priori Knowledge: That knowledge which is inate and necessary, needing no reference to things outside.
Analytic Propositions: Statements which prove themselves
Synthetic Propositions: Statements which are proved by things outside themselves.

KANT'S MORAL MAXIMS
The categorical imperative:
Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
The imperative of duty: Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
The practical imperative: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.