1st Edition
Philosophy, Obligation and the Law Bentham’s Ontology of Normativity
By Piero Tarantino
Copyright 2018
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Dr Piero Tarantino is a researcher at Centre Bentham, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France.
