Duty

Key question

What would make this obligation justified?

Check your understanding

Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Claims to examine

• Consequences, duties, character and care can support different judgements about the same choice.

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Follow a learning route

• How do you reason through a difficult moral choice?

  Compare consequences, duties, character and care using the same case.

Reading connections

• Introduction to Philosophy: 9.2 Consequentialism

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 9.3 Deontology

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 9.4 Virtue Ethics

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 9.6 Feminist Theories of Ethics

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 10.3 Business Ethics and Emerging Technology

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 9.1 Requirements of a Normative Moral Theory

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 10.2 Environmental Ethics

  Nathan Smith

• Introduction to Philosophy: 3.1 Indigenous Philosophy

  Nathan Smith