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... by formulating them in terms of the “right” rather than the “good.” Further, the essay shows how the German word Pflicht , central to Kant's ethics, does not correspond in meaning to the English word duty , whose cultural roots lie in English Puritanism. More generally, the argument is that, ultimately, “common...

... to remain? When Konrád wrote of “cultivating our ties with one another,” I presume that he included among the means of cultivation the voluntary abandonment by mere majorities of their presumed right to have everything their way. Ceding the right of way is an elementary “duty of grown, thinking people...

...Aidan O'Neill The question posed in this article is whether Catholics can fully, unreservedly, and conscientiously carry out their duties as citizens and as holders of their various public offices (legislative, judicial and executive) of the State, in accordance with the laws and constitution...

...Bruce B. Lawrence Few modern artists so consistently embodied a fuzzy logic of their own as did the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain (1915 – 2011). His critics tried to define him as a reckless defamer of Hindu values, but another way to define him is as a dutiful devotee of a vision...

... psychology seemed to stand in need of a new approach that com- bined attention to the small-scale and very rapid dynamics of social interactions with insights into the presumptions about rights and duties that were invoked, explicitly or implicitly...

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..., on the desert road to Canaan, among a company of fugitive slaves, from whom Smotrich and Netanyahu are pleased to think they are descended. 1. Perl, “First Duty,” 208 , quoted from Konrád, Antipolitics , 95, 101 . 2. Perl, “First Duty,” 213 . 3. See Perl, “First Duty,” 214 : We...

... hazardous circumstances, when one’s life or honor was in danger, the imams declared t a q ı¯ y a to be actually a duty. Through application of this strategy of survival, moderate elements in the community avoided expressing their true opinions publicly or in such a way as to cause misunderstanding...

... and the naturally reproductive goal of sex. Sermons make reference to the health and economic problems facing the Third World, and even the duty to pay taxes, rather than focus as in the past on the necessity to “control one’s instincts.” In short, almost no one today, not even...

..., of police behavior at the crime scene: a question of such legal nicety that only the judge could decide how the jury should regard it. But speaking, as we have been, of sortition . . . I was called, decades ago, for jury duty in New York City and was asked, along with the other candidates...

... certifying existence, but like a seal it is artificial. Past, pres- ent and future are really just verses of the same poem. Our role is to trace its theme back to God.” Blessed are those who are created in God’s image. It is my solemn duty to be here with you today as a friend in my capacity...

... and not melting sympathy; and it alone can be commanded.’ ” 16 Love as sensible feeling cannot be commanded, just as little as liking to drink coffee. “Liking to drink [coffee]” cannot be commanded, and therefore it is not a duty. Beneficence, as the behavior of benevolence, is a duty. According...

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... , a duty on duty...

... at the crossroads of possibility? Ethics has tradi- tionally been considered a sphere of normative judgments. Its statutes have been formulated as duties and very often addressed to the entire human race. The most convenient and generally accepted form...

... as exhibiting proper humility in the face of superhuman forces”: 47 “If the pragmatists are right,” he argued finally, “we do not have a duty to discover the natural order of things. If truth is defined as a grasp of that order, it is not desirable to love truth.” 48 He added that “the utilitarian claim...

... toin claims sitized.However, reason ourmain for choosing Comte-Sponville’s isthattextit questions yet at the same time, and for the same reasons, so thoroughly desen duties. human to doubt his distribution of moral competences...