Obligation

Before starting on this assignment, I did not know a lot of information about my representatives or senators. I feel more educated about who they are as person, the issues they work on and how they are able to impact my life based on the decisions they make. Now that I have more knowledge on the roles that my elected officials play in the world I live in, I have more appreciation and respect for them. I have more trust in them because, they are making differences by solving some of the issues…

things, be entertained, and to make more friendships. The unforeseen revelation washed over as I comprehended the words written on the tiny screen of my Iphone. After vocalizing my concerns with my parents, we decided that a break from Twitter was an obligation. This unintended effect…

*If having an obligation depends on one accepting an identity, but one can temporarily violate that identity and obligation, to what extent does one actually assume that identity? Korsgaard has claimed that an action will be accepted as a reason due to being intrinsically fit to be a something, given the identity in question. Presumably the same can be said of an obligation. An action is prohibited by an identity if it is intrinsically unfit, given the identity in question, to be performed. But…

Wild, and On Free Choice of the Will are all caught in inner struggles of choosing which competing obligation, between their self, others, and the Divine, to fulfill. ‘Obligation’ is defined in the dictionary as “something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.” In life, humans have so many assumed obligations: to themselves, to others, and for…

Butler’s theory of obligation from conscience alone provides insufficient obligation. In actuality, conscience is a limited and weak authority. According to Butler’s argument, conscience alone is sufficient for constraining people to act morally. Yet, if conscious was a strong enough source of obligation there would be no need for government, laws, and other external sources of obligation. People regularly defy their conscience, despite having a conscience to instill obligation upon them. As…

What are my payroll tax obligations? A state tax, which an employer or owner of an organization withholds on account of their employees. Payroll tax depends on the wages of the employees, working in an organization. Depending on the state where you are live, though every State and Federal authority receives payroll taxes. Business owners may be accountable for payroll taxes if the total amount of wages, paid throughout Australia surpassed the state set payroll tax. In that case, an employer…

Individual responsibility for implementing human rights varies based on a person’s belief about their moral obligations. Most people have similar ideas that if you see something and you can do something, then you should. However, some believe that it is one’s obligation to always do everything they can to help. Singer, Nager, and Young all discuss different types of personal responsibility. I support Singer’s argument the most, but to a slightly lesser extent. Singer writes about the idea that…

First, allow us to examine the first premise of Socrates’ argument in favor for a human being’s obligation to follow the laws of the land. The first premise for his argument is that the Laws of the land dictated the regulations that caused our parents to marry and produce us. Plainly stated, we have the Laws to thank for our existence. I do not believe in this accuracy of this premise in Socrates’ argument. I do not agree with the idea that the Laws had any direct effect on my production nor on…

In this essay, I contend that the inherent value of human integrity supersedes the moral obligation purported by Singer. Therefore, while I believe it to be morally acceptable for one to do within one’s capabilities to avert the occurrence of something bad, provided it does not involve “sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance” (Singer, 1971), it should not the singly permissible action an agent is allowed, as Singer argues should be the case in the drowning child analogy. I am of the…

Kant's form of obligation construct morals was situated in light of something that he called 'the clear cut goal' which he expected to be the premise of every single other run (a 'straight out goal' is a decide that is valid in all conditions.) The straight out basic comes in two forms which each underscore distinctive parts of the absolute objective. Kant is obvious that each of these forms is simply an alternate method for communicating a similar manage; they are not diverse standards.…