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Beschreibung
Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment.
Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment.
Über den Autor
David Owens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of two previous books: Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge 1992) and Reason Without Freedom (Routledge 2000). He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, Oxford University, Sydney University, London University, and at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Part One: Interests

  • 1: Blame and Guilt

  • 2: Wronging

  • 3: Obligation

  • 4: Obligation and Involvement

  • Part Two: Powers

  • 5: The Problem with Promising

  • 6: The Promissory Interest

  • 7: The Possibility of Consent

  • Part Three: Practices

  • 8: What is a Promise?

  • 9: The Promissory Bond

  • 10: Which Promises Bind?

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198708049
ISBN-10: 0198708041
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Owens, David
Hersteller: Oxford University Press(UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: David Owens
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.08.2014
Gewicht: 0,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 108612264

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