Sentence examples for duty theory from inspiring English sources

He also contends that Klosko's theory is "not really a fairness theory at all," but a "disguised Natural Duty theory, resting on an unstated moral duty to help supply essential goods locally …" (2005, p. 190, emphasis in original; also 2007, pp. 22 23).

As indicated below, in §4.5, the main objection to natural duty theories of political obligation is that they cannot account for this particularity.

Conversely, natural duty theories may be able to explain why anyone, citizen or not, has a duty to obey the law (i.e., the laws of one or another legal system) but struggle to explain why anyone has a duty to obey the laws of the particular state of which she is a member (see the discussion of particularity at the end of §2.3; see also §4.5).

"I was reading all this heavy-duty feminist theory, and Catherine MacKinnon in particular," he says.

The prime example of applying duty-based theory in assistive medical robots is giving medicine to an older adult.

By now, I feel an exercise-induced headache coming on, and Batman's rampant jaywalking has me reconsidering the off-duty cop theory.

Instead of Yankee beat writers staying alert to Steinbrenner sightings, some newspapers regularly assign reporters specifically to Steinbrenner duty under the theory that no game is complete without the Boss's verbal input.

An increase in the tobacco duty should in theory raise an extra £795m.

Jerome Marcus, a lawyer in Philadelphia who is part of the plaintiffs' group, said in an interview today that the duty-to-disclose theory was particularly attractive because it does not depend on any particular plaintiff having requested the information from a particular plan.

Prabhakara defended the ethical theory of duty for its own sake, the sense of duty alone being the proper incentive.

According to his own theory, our duty to obey our governors is not reducible to an instance of our duty to fulfill promises, but arises separately though in a way parallel to the genesis of that duty.