
David Owens on Duty
Philosophy Bites
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Are All Obligations Natural or Artificial?
In the first case, we'r saing there's something intrinsically in the act itself which put us under an obligation to fulfil the duty there. In the second case, we about outcomes. Hume distinguished those two approaches. He thought you could accommodate all obligations in one way or the other. They were either natural or artificial. But i think you can't do that tat there are certain kinds of obligations where you have to have the idea that the obligation is good for its own sake. And is a third category.
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