Assertion: promise | /r/HasProperty | kept
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Immanuel Kant suggested promises should always be kept, while some consequentialists argue that promises should be broken whenever doing so would yield benefits.
text: Few moral judgments are more intuitively obvious and more widely shared than that promises ought to be kept.
text: The fact that an agent promised someone something has no direct relevance to an act consequentialist appraisal of that agent's action at the time the promise is meant to be kept.
text: As mentioned above, the standard critique of the act utilitarian theory of promissory obligations is that it doesn't accord with our intuitive judgment that at least some promises that don't produce the maximum utility still ought to be kept.
text: Another problem for the rule utilitarian theory of promissory obligations is that it seems that utilitarian society couldn't establish a practice of promising, because prior to the establishment of the rule, people could have no expectations that promises would be kept.
text: Obligations are a part of promises because it is expected that promises are to be kept, thus people are obligated to keep promises.
text: A phrase emphasizing that a promise should be kept.
text: Promises are made to be kept, hence the saying, “Don’t make a promise you can’t keep.