Piero Tarantino

Philosophy, Obligation and the Law

Bentham's Ontology of Normativity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780367589349
• ISBN-10: 0367589346
• Artikelnr.: 69893643

Autorenporträt

Dr Piero Tarantino is a researcher at Centre Bentham, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

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
From Bentham to the Normative Question