Sentence examples for rational obligation from inspiring English sources

But many others not only hold that the attempted proofs all require premises that a disbeliever is under no rational obligation to accept but also question the evidentialist assumption that the only route to rational theistic belief is by inference from previously accepted evidence-stating premises.

Kant believes that he can resolve obligation into rational elements.

Defenders of the rationality of marriage have replied that marital obligations are rational because they help agents to secure their long-term interests in the face of passing desires (Landau 2004).

Kant justified this by arguing that moral obligation is a rational necessity: that which is rationally willed is morally right.

In these relations, the subject of expertise is conceived as an individual who 'lacks cognitive, emotional, practical, and ethical skills to take personal responsibility for rational self-management' and fulfill his moral obligations (Miller and Rose 2008, p. 106).

So, the rationalist is already under an obligation to construe rational intuition in a manner allowing for such knowledge of possibility.

In Buddhism, one follows the dharma from saddha (which is practical knowledge of one's religious obligations) to jnana (rational insight) to vijnana (mystical illumination).

Thus, Thompson concludes that the "mania" was a rational response to changes in contractual obligations.

The mutuality of obligations is not only rational but also just.

But the general thrust of the theory of promissory obligations remains the same in the later theory promising is a rational strategy, and thus promise-keeping is a moral obligation.

Of course we may have moral reasons to pursue other types of rescue; we may have competing obligations, in which case the rational course of action is to prioritize.