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Philosophy, Obligation and the Law: Bentham’s Ontology of Normativity

Philosophy, Obligation and the Law: Bentham’s Ontology of Normativity

Name: Philosophy, Obligation and the Law: Bentham’s Ontology of Normativity
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138496576
Price: 2168.79 HKD
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Author: Piero Tarantino
ISBN: 9781138496576

By Piero Tarantino

Routledge June 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781138496576
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: June 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the notion of obligation in Bentham’s thought. For Bentham, obligation is a fictitious – namely linguistic – entity, whose import and truth lie in empirical perceptions of pain and pleasure, ‘real’ entities.

This work explores Bentham’s fictionalism, and aims to identify the general features that ethical fictitious entities (including obligation) share with other kinds of fictitious entities. The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the ontological and epistemological foundations of Bentham’s distinction between real and fictitious entities; the second part addresses the normative and motivational aspects of moral and legal notions.

This book reveals the centrality of the following issues to Bentham’s legal reform: logic, theory of language, physics, metaphysics, metaethics, axiology, moral psychology, the structure of practical reasoning and action with reference to the law.

From the Normative Question to Bentham

Part One: The Ontology of Fiction

Chapter 1 The Distinction between Reality and Fiction

Chapter 2 The Representation of the Physical World

Part Two: The Normativity of Fiction

Chapter 3 Ethical Fictitious Entities

Chapter 4 Normativity and Motivation

Part Three: From Bentham to the Normative Question

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