Rival views of the manner in which political obligation functions in a person's deliberation reject the exclusionary element of Raz's account of the duty to obey the law, arguing that political obligations are simply weighty moral reasons that are balanced against all of the other reasons a person has to perform or not perform a given act (Perry 1989).
Mondrian believed that painting was the supreme visual art, free of any obligation to function.
We suspect that in a society governed by strong social norms like in pre War Japan, norms of filial obligation could function as social scripts and strongly predict individuals' perception of personal obligation and actual caregiving behavior for their own aging parents.
But they do want to shed the obligations of functioning in a secular world.
He said he needed the house, which rented for $13,365 a month by the end of the lease and was paid for by U.C., to fulfill his obligation to host functions for staff members, donors and visiting dignitaries.
As the extent of my sense of obligation about serving this function became apparent, I was routinely left behind with the Aunt Ruths and the Uncle Jacks and the Cousin Tobys, not just by my peers and coevals but by our parents_,_ too.
That is, one may grant that we can have obligations to institutions, including the state, yet hold that these obligations are "too weak to function as prima facie political obligations in the usual sense," for they "would be overridden frequently, not just in unusual circumstances" (Klosko 1989, p. 355).
For example, they may use their self-control to tolerate withdrawal symptoms long enough to get through a plane flight, work obligations or a family function, so that they can return to smoking or drug use later.
Some philosophers argue that the obligation to respect person functions as a negative constraint: respect involves refraining from regarding or treating persons in certain ways.
