Sentence examples for perfect duty from inspiring English sources
That was the area of "imperfect duty" (as contrasted with "perfect duty").
We usually expect a near perfect duty cycle to promote the probability that the sender and its candidate relays will be active at the same time.
Kant's example of a perfect duty to others concerns a promise you might consider making but have no intention of keeping in order to get needed money.
To refrain from suicide is a perfect duty toward oneself; to refrain from making promises you have no intention of keeping is a perfect duty toward others; to develop one's talents is an imperfect duty toward oneself; and to contribute to the happiness of others an imperfect duty toward others.
I will briefly sketch one way of doing so for the perfect duty to others to refrain from lying promises and the imperfect duty to ourselves to develop talents.
Under a perfect duty what is owed is specific and legally enforceable by political society or courts; but action in accord with imperfect duty cannot be compelled, and what is owed under an imperfect duty is imprecise.
Hence, together with the distinction between perfect and imperfect duties, we recognize four categories of duties: perfect duties toward ourselves, perfect duties toward others, imperfect duties toward ourselves and imperfect duties toward others.
Insofar as it limits my actions, it is a source of perfect duties.
Unlike perfect duties such as the obligation to justice or honesty, imperfect duties allow for agential discretion over when and with respect to whom to discharge the duty.
(DJN III.3.1; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 165) This introduces the important distinction between perfect and imperfect duties, the latter consisting of so-called duties of humanity which, though owed in the same sense as perfect duties, cannot be compelled.
The duties that form the subject matter of the Doctrine of Right are like the natural law theorists' perfect duties: they are precise, owed to specifiable others, and can be legally enforced.
