Sentence examples for source of obligations from inspiring English sources

The critics' claim is not that consent cannot be a source of obligations, for they typically believe it can.

Another question philosophers sometimes use to begin an inquiry into the deontic status of gratitude is whether gratitude is a source of obligations (Carr 2013).

Mark Murphy and Margaret Gilbert have sounded variations on this theme by arguing, in Murphy's case, that "surrender of judgment is a kind of consent" (in Edmundson 1999, p. 320), or, in Gilbert's, that "joint commitment" is an important source of obligations, including political obligations (1993, 2006, 2013).

Rather than asking whether gratitude is an obligation, or whether it is a source of obligation, a more fruitful question to ask is whether there are obligations of gratitude (and, if so, what they are).

(DJN I.6.12, DO I.5) In sum, while natural good and evil are not the source of obligation per se, and moral necessity is not hypothetical in that sense, they do explain why there is such a thing as obligation at all, or what the point of it is.

More recently, a second source of obligation has arisen with the growing recognition that patients have "rights" in their relationships with healthcare providers.

We can now begin to see the source of grandparental obligations in their own parental obligations.

Early Christians took the later Stoic recognition of two cities as independent sources of obligation and added a twist.

From a moral point of view, the rules of recognition, by themselves, cannot be regarded as sources of obligation to follow the law.

But no general policy of upholding the law with steel could be justified if the law were not, in general, a source of genuine obligations" (Dworkin 1986, 191).

Autonomy is the source of all obligations, whether moral or non-moral, since it is the capacity to impose upon ourselves, by virtue of our practical identities, obligations to act (Korsgaard 1996).