Still later, after the European political revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, there was intellectual room for secularized versions of the same idea to take hold: duty or obligation was understood in terms of obedience to moral law(s) or principles that do not come from God but are devised by human beings.
Celibacy has played little role in Judaism, in which marriage and raising children are understood as holy obligations.
So, by analogy, some suggested systems of deontic logic in which obligation would be understood as truth at all morally perfect worlds.
But only one of them credits his sources, writes literature, and worships James Joyce.Another line worth quoting is Mr Coelho's dictum that a writer has "a duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation".
Look, one might say: if you are willing to hold that all moral properties other than those in the obligation family are to be understood in non-theological voluntarist terms, what is to stop us from holding that obligation is to be understood in non-theological voluntarist terms as well?
An additional question is whether legitimate political authority is understood to entail political obligations or not.
Indeed, the formal structure of contract may be understood by establishing contrasts between contract obligation and these near-neighbors.
Justice is understood as distributional justice with respect to rights and obligations, benefits and burdens.
Given that many low income countries are heavily reliant on external assistance to fund their health sectors the acceptance of obligations of international assistance and cooperation with regard to the right to health (global health obligations) is insufficiently understood and studied by international health and human rights scholars.
The only thing I try to encourage the players to do is understand they have an obligation to each other.
According to proponents of a theory that has emerged in the last thirty years or so, political obligation is best understood as an "associative" obligation grounded in membership.
