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So the duty to promote the highest good is not a particular duty at all, but the sum of all our duties derived from the moral law — it "does not increase the number of morality's duties but rather provides these with a special point of reference for the unification of all ends" (6:5).
'A present person does not face obligations just because he would not be where he is today without certain past events.' 14 This is entirely true, but is orthogonal rather than antithetical to the original argument, which was about duties derived from fairness and justice, not history.
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We have only duties deriving from specific roles and assignments of duty that are not a part of ordinary morality.
In times of crisis, the duties deriving from doctors' multiple roles may come into conflict.
John Rawls subsequently adopted this principle in an influential essay of his own, referring to the duty derived from the principle as the "duty of fair play" (1964).
The example of not lying seems ill-chosen, because Kant's own theory does not treat it as a fundamental moral requirement, but rather as a duty derived from a fundamental requirement (MM 6 429 31).
This is because an insufficient explanation by a physician means a failure to fulfil the physician's duty derived from the medical contract between the physician and patient.
Specific negative and positive self-regarding duties are derived from the more comprehensive duty to oneself to do what one can to lead a good or excellent life.
Other duties are derived from these.
But this duty is derived from a general duty to do what I have promised to do.
A group, as a single integral entity, can possess duties just as it can possess rights, and those duties may derive from group rights.
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