Philosophy, obligation and the law : Bentham's ontology of normativity / Piero Tarantino.
2018
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Title
Philosophy, obligation and the law : Bentham's ontology of normativity / Piero Tarantino.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Call Number
K320 .T37 2018
ISBN
9781138496576 hardcover
113849657X hardcover
9781351021258 electronic book
1351021257 electronic book
9781351021241 electronic publication
1351021249 electronic publication
9781351021234 mobipocket
1351021230 mobipocket
9781351021265 ebk
113849657X hardcover
9781351021258 electronic book
1351021257 electronic book
9781351021241 electronic publication
1351021249 electronic publication
9781351021234 mobipocket
1351021230 mobipocket
9781351021265 ebk
Description
xvii, 237 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1014071465
Summary
"This book presents an ... 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
xii
Acknowledgements
xvi
List of abbreviations
xviii
From the normative question to Bentham
1
ontology of fiction
theory of real and fictitious entities and its relation with the normative question
11
1.
distinction between reality and fiction
21
1.1.
Real entities
21
map of entities
21
Perceptible entities
24
Inferential entities
27
belief in the existence of real entities
31
1.2.
Fictitious entities
36
Empirical ontology and linguistic ontology
36
area of reality and the area of fiction
40
Unreal or fabulous entities
45
1.3.
Language and imagination
47
Verbal reality
47
linguistic process of substantiation
50
operations of the human mind
51
2.
representation of the physical world
59
2.1.
epistemology of physics
59
fictitious framework of reality
59
Ten Predicaments
61
notions of relation and causality
64
image of the physical world
66
2.2.
double meaning of existence
67
empirical account of existence
67
linguistic account of existence
69
reconciliation between realism and constructivism
75
2.3.
connection between reality and fiction
76
Empirical realism and constructivism
76
Sense-perception and the human mind
77
ontological function of language
80
normativity of fiction
evolution of the theory of real and fictitious entities
85
3.
Ethical fictitious entities
91
3.1.
problem of definition
91
import and truth of real entities and fictitious entities
91
method of paraphrasis
95
definition of obligation
98
notions of right and power
105
3.2.
Moral qualities
110
Good versus bad or evil
110
Right and wrong
113
theory of virtue
117
3.3.
Pleasure and pain
125
Pathematic perceptions
125
causation of action
128
Making a promise
131
4.
Normativity and motivation
135
4.1.
foundations of ethics
135
principle of utility
135
criticism of asceticism and sympathy
145
attack on the schools of thought adverse to utility
150
Empirical constructivism
155
Constructivism and fictionalism
158
4.2.
theory of action
163
Law and human behaviour
163
Practical reason
167
understanding and the will
171
Exciting or moderating cause
173
Act
173
Circumstances
174
Motives
176
Intentionality
180
Consciousness, disposition and consequences
182
example of practical reasoning
182
4.3.
Instrumental rationality
187
Desire-belief and means-end model
187
Sanction and obligation
199
law as a real entity
210
Conflicting motives in practical reasoning
212
Duty and interest junction principle
216
From Bentham to the normative question
219
Bibliography
225
Index
234