Sentence examples for imperative duty from inspiring English sources

In Asia, our traditional values encourage and even demand that wealth and means pass through lineage as an imperative duty.

Kant's view that morality should be determined by the categorical imperative – duty to the moral law, rather than acting for a specific end – has been viewed as incompatible with divine command theory.

One of the cardinal tenets of utilitarianism was the imperative duty of the state to intervene in cases in which its actions might maximize the aggregate happiness of the community.

The imperative duty of humankind was to rid the world of suffering by removing the sin that caused it, for as Southwood Smith proclaimed, "[w]hat can be improved must be improved and will be improved until man in society reflects the benevolent purposes of the Almighty".

"Defeating international terrorism and defending Americans in our homeland are imperative duties of the federal government, above and beyond all its other activities," Mr. Bush's budget proposal says.

Applying the categorical imperative, duties arise because failure to fulfil them would either result in a contradiction in conception or in a contradiction in the will.

"There is a moral imperative and duty to support others that are doing less well.

One must pass on to the imperative, to duty, to interdiction as expressed through the idea of the normative.

Young women felt an imperative, a political duty, to understand their desire and responses, to explore their own pleasure, to recognize sexuality as something rising from within.

Cole, whose mother Selina is from Sierra Leone, said: "With the country facing such a terrible crisis, it's imperative and my duty to do all I can to try to help.

These paradoxes can be resolved by recognizing that the inference from imperative to actual duty is a defeasible one (Asher and Bonevac 1996; Nute 1997).