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necessitation

  • a word derived from necessitate.
    necessitate
    verb (used with object)
    to make necessary or unavoidable.

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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 Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

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 William James

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

This inner necessitation is so little a defect that its direct opposite, undetermined choice and inconstancy, must rather be excluded from God as an imperfection.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg