You have a duty to your children to help keep them alive, to teach them and feed them and clothe them and give them an education. And to teach them also about morals and duty and to give them a religion if that is your wish or to teach them how to create their own religion so they don't kill themselves by having no meaning for their lives to hold them alive and together and the same for their children.
We have a duty to ourselves, to our family and to our friends and civilization not to kill ourselves because of what it could do to family and friends (them killing themselves in reaction to your death).
Unless we have been given only a few months to live by doctors (and they could be wrong).
We have a duty to our civilization to preserve it and to make it better in any way that we can. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Duty
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This article is about the ethical concept. For other uses, see Duty (disambiguation).
"Duty" by Edmund Leighton
Cicero, an early philosopher who discusses duty in his work “On Duty", suggests that duties can come from four different sources:[2]
- as result of being human
- as a result of one's particular place in life (one's family, one's country, one's job)
- as a result of one's character
- as a result of one's own moral expectations for oneself
Many schools of thought have debated the idea of duty. While many assert mankind's duty on their own terms, some philosophers have absolutely rejected a sense of duty.[citation needed]
Duty has to be accepted and understood on the basis of one's foundation of sense and knowledge. Therefore, duty and its manifestations vary with values from culture to culture. On one hand duty may be seen as terms of reference, job description, or behavior - and it is all of that ... but duty is not only about doing things right, it is about doing the right thing.
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Civic duty
Main article: Civic engagement
Duty[4]
is also often perceived as something owed to one’s country
(patriotism), or to one's homeland or community. A civic duty could
include:- obey the law
- pay tax
- provide for a common defense, should the need arise
- enroll to vote, and vote at all elections and referenda (unless there is a reasonable excuse such as a religious objection, being overseas or illness on polling day)
- serve on a jury, if called upon
- going to the aid of victims of accidents and street-crime and testifying as a witness later in court.[4]
- reporting contagious illnesses or pestilence to public-health authorities.
- volunteering for public services (e.g. life-saving drills)
- donating blood
Filial duty
See also: Filial piety
Duty in various cultures
Duty varies between different cultures and continents. Duty in Asia and Latin America is commonly more heavily weighted than in Western culture. According to a study done on attitudes toward family obligation:- "Asian and Latin American adolescents possessed stronger values and greater expectations regarding their duty to assist, respect, and support their families than their peers with European backgrounds." [6]
- "Notions of filial duty … are commonly invoked to mobilize the loyalties, labor power, and other resources children in the ostensible interests of the household and, in some cases, those of the lineage clan as a whole. Doctrines of filial piety … attuned to them may thus be a source of great comfort and solace to the elders but they can also be experienced as stressful, repressive, or both by those who are enjoined to honor their parents’ (and grandparents’) wishes and unspoken expectations."[7]
Criticisms of the concept of duty
Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the fiercest critics of the concept of duty. "What destroys a man more quickly," he asks, "than to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automaton of “duty”?" (The Antichrist, § 11)Nietzsche claims that the task of all higher education is "to turn men into machines." The way to turn men into machines is to teach them to tolerate boredom. This is accomplished, Nietzsche says, by means of the concept of duty. (Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an untimely man” § 9.29)
See also
References
- Peletz, Michael G. Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2011. Print.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Duty". Encyclopædia Britannica 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 736.
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