For example, knowing how to translate the legal text into operational policies, or determining the correct scope and content of obligations.
We have here defended the existence of a broad obligation to participate in research with reference to its basis in fairness and the duty of rescue, without exploring the content of the obligation in any great detail.
In any event, Kant's critics questioned his view that all duties can be derived from a purely formal principle and argued that, in his preoccupation with rational consistency, he neglected the concrete content of moral obligation.
Dworkin anticipates that some "sophisticated theologians" will be taken aback by his project, for they will identify the god they celebrate as both the source and definition of all that is good and true; God is truth, they will say, and following his dictates is the content of moral obligation.
Furthermore, not just contract formation but the content of contractual obligation once established might also be recharacterized along the lines of tort law's harm-based approach.
On the other hand, once it is recognized that parental obligations are conventional, the content of parental obligations and the voluntary actions required to acquire them can be explained with reference to social conventions of parenthood (Millum 2008).
The main theoretical alternatives to the contractual view hold that marital obligations are defined by the purpose of the institution, and that spouses cannot alter these institutional obligations (much like the professional moral obligations of a doctor; to become a doctor, one must voluntarily accept the role and its obligations, but one cannot negotiate the content of these obligations).
On this view, our agent-relative obligations do not focus on causings or intentions separately; rather, the content of such obligations is focused on intended causings.
O'Neill's argument does not rely on any specification of the content of the obligations that might be owed by adults to children.
However essential primary health care was not defined, and in General Comment 14 for the first time, the Committee clarified the content of "core obligations" under the right to health.
