Sentence examples for generating obligations from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thus, due to the psychological conditions required to maintain romantic love, marriage, as a love-protecting institution, generates obligations to sexual exclusivity (Martin 1993, Martin 1994, Scruton 1986, Chapter 11, 356 361, Steinbock 1986).

(For an overview, see entry on authority; see further Finnis 1980 , 1989 Raz 1986; Dworkin 1986. Notice that on Dworkin's view political obligation is grounded in political association. Association generates obligations that associates owe each other, rather than an obligation to obey authoritative directives).