necessitation
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But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.
From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
If now the maxims of rational beings are not by their own nature coincident with this objective principle, then the necessity of acting on it is called practical necessitation, i.e., duty.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Nevertheless, the character empirically manifested in the phenomenal world, while it is completely necessitated, is the expression of something that is free from necessitation.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
Necessity -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination. necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
If now the maxims of rational beings are not by their own nature coincident with this objective principle, then the necessity of acting on it is called practical necessitation, i. e., duty.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
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