Philosophy, Obligation and the Law

Bentham's Ontology of Normativity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58934-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarantino, Piero

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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