Personal obligation (ICA)

This is experienced as the acknowledgement that, if something is going to be done about a situation of human suffering, then one will have to be involved in that situation for the sake of changing it. It occurs when a person realizes that just feeling sorry about something is not going to prevent it from continuing into the future, that he must commit himself if the future is going to be different. An example is the decision of doctor that he must go to Africa and work in the camps for famine victims.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting one's engagement (the life of obedience) the third formal aspect is embodying charity as the transestablishment to act out social concern. At the second phenomenological level, this occurs when one recognizes one's obligation to the rest of mankind.