Civic engagement and social capital entail mutual obligation and responsibility for action.
Though not officially affiliated with them, he shared some of their ideals, including the belief that writers have an inherent insight into the moral nature of humanity and have an obligation for literary action along with their aesthetic function.
He argues that obligations are categorical reasons for action that are also protected by exclusionary reasons not to act on some of the competing reasons to the contrary.
This should be a common global obligation, like action to root out racism or action to protect the environment.
According to agent-centered theories, we each have both permissions and obligations that give us agent-relative reasons for action.
If we hold the legal positivist thesis that law is essentially founded on social conventions, another important question arises here: how can a conventional practice give rise to reasons for action and, in particular, to obligations?
There may some obligation for the team to provide live action demos if the deal is a big one.
Our soldiers have the obligation to take action".
"The Fed is fulfilling its obligation to take action to address unemployment.
LSU had an obligation to take action on this matter.
It is always important to remember, however, that no plausible account of special obligations will view them as always being all-things-considered reasons for action.
