Promises, Commitments, and the Nature of Obligation

Under a widespread understanding of the nature moral obligation, one cannot be under an obligation to perform or omit act and have power release oneself from one’s obligation. According this view, being necessarily entails relinquishing sovereignty over obligatory matter, that is, capacity control own obligational world. This essay argues against such view. I shall argue by making what will call commitment, person assumes towards another on given matter whilst preserving herself her Commitments constitute morally acts which’s obligatoriness those obliged always retain control. They obligations which obligors preserve sovereignty. show notion commitment sheds light structure important phenomena as some our loyalty obligations, and, furthermore, it reveals something central about justification scope law contracts.