What is moral obligation? What is the extent of our moral obligation to other people and other living things?

Answer 1

A moral obligation is something that what ever morals you have instilled in you mean to you. Your morals may be different from mine so your moral obligation to your fellow man/woman or an animal may be different from mine. If we were raised them same way they might be similar but not necessarily so.

Your Moral Obligation is what ever you feel you need to do to accomplish another day and not feel guilty about it tomorrow. let that be your guide in the moral department.

Answer 2

The source and scope of our moral obligations as an abstraction is a subject of long-standing debate in secular philosophy. Since others will touch on scope I'll present a few propositions about the source.
Hobbes - Self-interest is the source of morality
Hume - Social interest is the source of morality
Kant - The moral is derived from an innate categorical imperative which is part of what makes us human.
Plato - 'The Good' [the source of morality] is founded upon recollection of the Ideal world of Forms.
Aristotle - 'The Good' is the rational mean average of the extreme.

Answer 3

Morality is a pretense... a facade.

So it becomes an obligation and a fake one at that.

End morality and see people doing genuine good by their very nature.

Answer 4

If you were underwater with an oxygen tank and mask, someone was diving with you and suddenly ran out of oxygen, would you help them and share your oxygen? You could call this a moral obligation an altruistic action or something you felt yourself compelled to do without even thinking about it? Perhaps moral obligations are beginning to overshadow a more natural instinctive human drive to protect each other as fellow human beings. Maybe we're not as bad as we think we are and the problem is people choosing NOT to care.

Answer 5

Aristotle used a phrase that is applicable to your question: rational moderation. The premise behind these two words is that we all have rights and can pursue these rights so long as we do not infringe upon the rights of others. Balance seems to be a key. In quantum theory and/or metaphysics, we are all connected since there is only One power and presence (Omnipotent Good/God/Allah--whatever one wishes to call this essence) of which we are a part. Newton's third law says, basically, that what you touch touches you. I have come to know in my 61 years that we cannot hurt someone else without simultaneously hurting ourselves, and vice versa. Perhaps a person's first and most important task is to love him/herself, since as the mind goes, the energy flows. If we are centered in positive energies within, we then radiate (emanate) these positives into our environment and the world. I'm not sure I even like the word "moral" because in these times of neocon takeover, the word is misused and has a great deal of error and judgement attached. I think the words "This above all--to thine own self be true" best answer your question, because responsibility then falls upon the individual to live a good life that is based upon honesty and personal integrity, which is then projected into our world.

Answer 6

Moral obligation is the concern with the principles of right and wrong in conduct and character.Upholding the standards of good behavior. Also, in a world with so much to offer everyone, to live and let live.

Answer 7

a ethical criminal duty is to help yet another while he/she desires help. ethical is a few concern you need to do because of fact in any different case the different is going decrease than. working example it rather is the ethical criminal duty of a us of a to furnish Healthcare for it citizens. how many human beings do you be responsive to who misplaced their abode after a ailment and that they don't have coverage.? it rather is the ethical criminal duty for A monetary employer ,to no longer sell too large of a loan to a individual with intense activity fee,so as that they go broke. extremely some human beings can no longer do the maths ,so as that they desire help.

Answer 8

The term moral obligation has a number of meanings in moral philosophy, in religion, and in layman's terms. Generally speaking, when someone says of an act that it is a "moral obligation," they refer to a belief that the act is one prescribed by their set of values.

Moral philosophers differ as to the origin of moral obligation, and whether such obligations are external to the agent (that is, are, in some sense, objective and applicable to all agents) or are internal (that is, are based on the agent's personal desires, upbringing, conscience, and so on).

Answer 9

you have no moral obligation to any thing or any body, the things you do should come from your own will.
morals are what you are told to have by people, usually the people you rely upon for guidance are the greatest manipulators..

Answer 10

not to hurt the feelings of others, non-interference in individual freedom. as for concerned with life.