The phrase "a question of obligation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing matters that involve duties, responsibilities, or moral imperatives.
Example: "In this situation, it is not just a matter of choice; it is a question of obligation to fulfill our commitments."
Alternatives: "a matter of duty" or "a question of responsibility".
But to the question of obligation — whether those who encountered the body should have stopped and helped the man — the answers came quickly.
It's not just a question of staying power, it is also an obligation to perform.
If, however, you want to be a utilitarian you have to distinguish empirical questions from questions of obligation and value – particularly when it comes to making decisions about torture and other bads.
For instance, if some subjects have obligations of gratitude to the state, and obligations of gratitude cannot be exacted or demanded, then the question of political obligation (what obligations a subject owes to the state) and the question of political authority (what the state has a right to demand of its subjects) do not have coextensive answers (McConnell 1993: 208).
Yet as Onora O'Neill (1996: chapter 5) has argued, questions of obligations and responsibilities should be central to any account of justice.
However other scholars understand these chapters as Crescas is that Crescas is not concerned here with finding a morsel of free choice in a highly deterministic world, but is rather addressing a very different problem: He only wants to answer the question of external obligation and the parallel issue of culpability.
By putting consent at the center of their contracts these early modern contract theorists (1) were clearly supposing that individuals had basic normative powers over themselves before they entered into the social contract (a point that Hume [1741] stressed), and (2) brought the question of political obligation to the fore.
Crescas also addresses the question of the obligation of various beliefs.
The question of political obligation, then, turns on whether there is are moral reasons to obey the mandatory requirements of a wide-ranging, morally fallible, institutionalized authority.
The question of moral obligation of health providers in attending to spiritual concerns of patients and ethical boundaries of such intervention readily comes to mind.
