moral obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandobligation
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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obligation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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(Definition ofmoralandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral obligation
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Consequently, does society have amoralobligationto mitigate the differences in health for which we are personally responsible?
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Themoralobligationof children to care for their elderly parents was seen to be outside of the aegis of social-welfare reform.
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Themoralobligationto obey the norm is not yet a political obligation not to resist the might of the sovereign enforcer of the norm.
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One might think that at least judges and legislators must be presumed to regard the legal obligations as a species ofmoralobligation.
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He denied that aid was amoralobligation.
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It seems to have been instrumental in dividing the opposition by its appeal to themoralobligationto forgive.
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The redemption operation's profitability also convinced some officials that the government had amoralobligationto reconsider redemption amounts.
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But the ultimate source ofmoralobligationis not discussed in this context.
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Do we have amoralobligationto reach out to perpetrators when no moral reciprocity is evident?
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Presumably, if you have amoralobligationin a given epistemic state then someone could tell that you have.
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Rather, normative principles are the sorts of things that createmoralobligation.
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Could we, in particular, formulate an equivalence linkingmoralobligationand respect?
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But the necessity of knowledge formoralobligationis irrelevant here.
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You only have to look at the various attempts to reconstruct that principle as a criterion ofmoralobligation.
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Thus, the argument seems to run, trusting is a way of respecting autonomy, something that we have amoralobligationto do.
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The first responds to the question of how structures can havemoralobligationsince they are not per se animate.
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