Philosophy, Obligation and the Law

Name: Philosophy, Obligation and the Law
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Philosophy, Obligation and the LawBenthams Ontology of Normativity\nAuthor(s): Piero Tarantino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367589349, 978-0367589349\nSynopsis\nThis book presents a comprehensive investigation of the notion of obligation in Benthams thought. For Bentham, obligation is a fictitious namely linguistic entity, whose import and truth lie in empirical perceptions of pain and pleasure, real entities.\n\nThis work explores Benthams 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 Benthams distinction between real and fictitious entities; the second part addresses the normative and motivational aspects of moral and legal notions.\n\nThis book reveals the centrality of the following issu.