Sentence examples for generate obligations from inspiring English sources

Contracts generate obligations of agreement-keeping quite generally, without any need for support from considerations (such as friendship or some other form of solidarity) that come from outside the morality of agreements.

Dworkin thinks that families and friendships satisfy these constraints in many cases and that only when they satisfy them do they generate obligations.

His thesis is that communities that satisfy four conditions for being genuine communities thereby generate obligations to go along with the terms of the association.

The worry here is that left institutionalists might be begging the question by assuming that the international system is indeed coercive, will remain coercive even if reformed, and is coercive in precisely way needed to generate obligations of distributive justice.

On the other hand, if those personal reasons are ones that the subject may properly take into account in deciding whether to consent, then the interpretive move required for voluntary residence to generate obligations in all subjects of a reasonably just state cannot work.

If this is kind of causal chain were sufficient to generate obligation, why stop at grandparents rather than great grandparents and so forth back through time?

It seems that what Hardimon is really appealing to as a necessary condition of a role's generating obligations is that's role being 'meaningful, rational, or good'.

A political authority thus justified is, according to Simmons, necessary but not sufficient for political legitimacy, and hence for generating obligations.

Any community that satisfies these four conditions is a genuine community and thereby generates obligations in each of the members to comply with the terms of the association.

As we saw, a difficulty with (i), the true community view, is that it leaves open the possibility that occupying a role in an unjust community still generates obligations.

It seems either to presuppose that decisions will have unanimous support or it requires a number of substantive conditions on self-determination, which conditions do a lot of the work of generating obligations to democracy.