necessitation

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But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

Necessity -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination. necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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

Secondly, the determination of the will is an inner necessitation, grounded in the being's own nature, not an external compulsion.

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

Nevertheless, the character empirically manifested in the phenomenal world, while it is completely necessitated, is the expression of something that is free from necessitation.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas