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.
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.
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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
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
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