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What is an oughtness?

What is an oughtness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
  2. (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
  3. (rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
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There is a sense of divine oughtness from which there is no escape.
On my view, the notion of moral oughtness or duty is not explicable simply in terms of the concepts of goodness and badness.
Every attempt to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have shown, either end in an illogical system or destroy the possiblity of a separate science of Ethics at all.
Oughtness, may I suggest, consists in the power which a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices.

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