necessitation
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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
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
For this reason the determination we are concerned with is not a necessitation.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
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
And Barrow enumerates among natural modes of being and operation far above our reach, “God’s eternity without succession,” coupling it with “His prescience without necessitation of events.”
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
