| Philosophy, Obligation and the Law: Bentham's Ontology of Normativity Contributor(s): Tarantino, Piero (Author) |
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ISBN: 113849657X ISBN-13: 9781138496576 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional - Law | Jurisprudence - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 340.1 |
| LCCN: 2018000714 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law |
| Physical Information: 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
