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 Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

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 Roget, Peter Mark

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 Whittaker, Thomas