This has translated into a view of caring as a personal choice or natural obligation rather than a deliberate process.
The film's image of the body, Ms. Cohen shows, was a declaration of its independence from the burdens of traditional time and space, a rebellion against even natural obligation.
"In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage," Mr. Russell wrote.
Since the necessary condition for a natural obligation of promises cannot be fulfilled, we may conclude that this obligation is instead the product of group invention to serve the interests of society.
For me it's the human aspect of us and the natural obligation.
"For a tradition to survive, you have a natural obligation to leave your own mark on that tradition". "Preservation Hall has continued to carry the cultural torch, so to speak.
I have this natural obligation to hold up a conversation with someone who has no choice but to stay silent on a wooden porch deck with wondering wind chimes in the background.
Once we allow non-derivative, genuinely special obligations in our moral theory, we are left with the question as to whether we can ever know when a special obligation outweighs another special obligation or a natural duty.
On the one hand, a leading "philosophical anarchist," Robert Paul Wolff, claims Kantian inspiration for his a priori rejection of the possibility of political obligation (see §3.1, below); on the other hand, important exponents of the "natural duty" approach to the obligation to obey the law also claim to derive their arguments from Kant (see §4.5, below).
The final contenders in the political obligation debates are natural duty accounts.
