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Duty is a term loosely applied to any Action (or course of action) which is regarded as Morally incumbent, apart from personal likes and dislikes or any external Compulsion . Such action must be viewed in relation to a Principle , which may be Abstract in the highest sense (e.g. Obedience to the dictates of Conscience ) or based on local and personal Relation s. That a Father and his Child ren have mutual duties implies that there are moral Law s regulating their Relationship ; that it is the duty of a Servant to obey his master within certain limits is part of a definite Contract , whereby he becomes a servant engaging to do certain things for a specified Wage . Thus, it is held that it is not the duty of a servant to infringe a moral law even though his master should command it. For the nature of duty in the abstract, and the various criteria on which it has been based, see Ethics . From the root idea of obligation to serve or give something in return, involved in the conception of duty, have sprung various derivative uses of the word; thus it is used of the services performed by a Minister of a Church , by a Soldier , or by any Employee or servant. 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 (such as the Taoists ). REFERENCE |
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