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April 8, 2010 8:21 PM Subscribe
What is duty?
Your meditations on duty, please. Not national duty, not patriotic duty. I'm talking about your obligations, to people, and why. What are duty's parameters? Where are its edges? At what point are you exempt? - under what conditions is it null & void, if ever? And tell me the beauty of it. Why is duty necessary at all? Talk to me about why duty is something that has developed throughout the world, across cultures. Tell me about how the discipline of duty is a sum positive, about why it is so very ingrained and difficult and worthy of our attention. Tell me. Tell me about duty.
Your meditations on duty, please. Not national duty, not patriotic duty. I'm talking about your obligations, to people, and why. What are duty's parameters? Where are its edges? At what point are you exempt? - under what conditions is it null & void, if ever? And tell me the beauty of it. Why is duty necessary at all? Talk to me about why duty is something that has developed throughout the world, across cultures. Tell me about how the discipline of duty is a sum positive, about why it is so very ingrained and difficult and worthy of our attention. Tell me. Tell me about duty.
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posted by Netzapper at 8:23 PM on April 8, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by Netzapper at 8:23 PM on April 8, 2010 [2 favorites]
The philosophers Gilbert & Sullivan have written extensive treatises on the subject.
posted by The White Hat at 8:24 PM on April 8, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by The White Hat at 8:24 PM on April 8, 2010 [1 favorite]
the only duty we have is to treat our fellow man in a compassionate and loving manner...
posted by HuronBob at 8:30 PM on April 8, 2010
posted by HuronBob at 8:30 PM on April 8, 2010
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." -- Robert E. Lee
The pithily distilled wisdom of someone who thought a lot about duty in all its forms. It works for me.
posted by Dimpy at 8:39 PM on April 8, 2010
The pithily distilled wisdom of someone who thought a lot about duty in all its forms. It works for me.
posted by Dimpy at 8:39 PM on April 8, 2010
Deontological ethics is one theory about what ethics requires, which has a special focus on the concept of duty
Kant's moral philosophy - duty
search of Stanford Encyclopedia showing articles that include the term 'duty'
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:41 PM on April 8, 2010 [1 favorite]
Kant's moral philosophy - duty
search of Stanford Encyclopedia showing articles that include the term 'duty'
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:41 PM on April 8, 2010 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: p.s. Long ago graduated. In no way are you supplying points for the Phil 232 paper I think I wrote about this c. 1993.
posted by Mrs Hilksom at 8:42 PM on April 8, 2010
posted by Mrs Hilksom at 8:42 PM on April 8, 2010
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posted by Tomorrowful at 8:22 PM on April 8, 2010