Duty
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The concept of duty or obligation, its moral significance. |
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Comparison of the ethics of duty with the ethics of happiness, pleasure, or utility. |
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The divisions of duty, internal and external duty, the realms of ethics and jurisprudence. |
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The sense of duty. |
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The moral and social development of conscience, its dictates. |
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The emotional development of conscience, its morbid manifestations. |
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The derivation of duty from divine, natural, and civil law, and from the categorical imperative of reason. |
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Conflicts between duties of diverse origins. |
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The relation of duty to justice and to rights, oaths and promises. |
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The tension between duty and instinct, desire, or love. |
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The duties of command and obedience in family life. |
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Political obligation, cares, functions, loyalties. |
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Duty to God, piety and worship. |
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