Obligation (philosophy)

In political Philosophy and Moral philosophy , the obligation is distinguished from the Contrainte like a normative concept of a positive concept: whereas the constraint describes a real situation where one is physically forced to do something, the obligation describes a situation where one does not have the right not to do something.

Whereas the constraint concerns the fact, the obligation concerns the Justice or the well, even of the Community property. Thus, an individual can be constrained not to fly (because the presence of obstacles returns the materially impossible flight to him); but it is anything else to say that it to the obligation not to fly (because that would be unjust and that is prohibited to him Moralement).

One of the main issues of the political Philosophie modern consists in for example founding the obligation with the Loi S of all the Citoyen S: initially it is not a question to seek how to make so that the Citoyen S obey indeed the Loi S, but to seek a form Politique such as the Citoyen S do not have the Droit not to obey the Loi S, i.e. such as they are Moralement there obliged.

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