Sentence examples for universal duty from inspiring English sources

David M. Kennedy argues that there is a need for a "universal duty to service".

Furthermore, if supererogation is a personal (rather than universal) duty, then is it by a subjective judgment that it is made to be so?

Surely if the Cuban government did not condone or facilitate the attacks on Avila, it had a duty to protect her -- the universal duty of any government toward citizens acting non-violently and within the law.

However, this universal duty of nonmaleficence obviously needs curbing, lest one is (absurdly) held responsible for all possible harm (no matter how minute) to anyone (no matter how remote).

This universal duty to do no harm, which is codified in some form in virtually all established moral theories as well as in civil law, applies to non-parents and parents alike.

Universal Duties of Justice.

Patriotic duty owes its moral force to the moral force of those universal duties.

Special duties mediate our fundamental, universal duties and make possible their most effective discharge.

It presents the duty of special concern for the well-being of one's country and compatriots as a device for assigning to individuals some universal duties.

But the most general of such identities — that which makes us members of a kingdom of ends — is our moral identity, which yields universal duties and obligations independent of contingent factors.

Since then the 26-year-old beauty queen has been busy fulfilling her "universal" duties.