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Bound by Convention

- Obligation and Social Rules
Af: David Owens Engelsk Paperback

Bound by Convention

- Obligation and Social Rules
Af: David Owens Engelsk Paperback
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How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether social arrangements, such as our family structures, reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do, compliance will serve our interests because these rules are not just conventions. Another approach is to ask whether following a convention has desirable consequences. For example, the rule which makes the dollar bill legal tender is a convention, and the great usefulness of having a medium of exchange ensures we follow that convention by accepting paper money in return for things of real value. In this book, David Owens argues that being bound by a convention can also be valuable for its own sake. People need meaning in their lives and conventions infuse acts and attitudes with normative significance, rendering them right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, required or forbidden. Such rules bind us not just in virtue of their usefulness but also because their absence would impoverish our social world. Appreciating this point is essential to a proper understanding of our cultures of neighbourliness and hospitality, family structures, systems of property rights, conventions around speech, the norms governing how we deport ourselves in public, and even the rules of a game.
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How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether social arrangements, such as our family structures, reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do, compliance will serve our interests because these rules are not just conventions. Another approach is to ask whether following a convention has desirable consequences. For example, the rule which makes the dollar bill legal tender is a convention, and the great usefulness of having a medium of exchange ensures we follow that convention by accepting paper money in return for things of real value. In this book, David Owens argues that being bound by a convention can also be valuable for its own sake. People need meaning in their lives and conventions infuse acts and attitudes with normative significance, rendering them right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, required or forbidden. Such rules bind us not just in virtue of their usefulness but also because their absence would impoverish our social world. Appreciating this point is essential to a proper understanding of our cultures of neighbourliness and hospitality, family structures, systems of property rights, conventions around speech, the norms governing how we deport ourselves in public, and even the rules of a game.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 280
ISBN-13: 9780198925927
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0198925921
Kategori: Etik og moralfilosofi
Udg. Dato: 3 okt 2024
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 158mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 3 okt 2024
Forfatter(e): David Owens
Forfatter(e) David Owens

Kategori Etik og moralfilosofi

ISBN-13 9780198925927

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 280

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 158mm

Udg. Dato 3 okt 2024

Oplagsdato 3 okt 2024

Forlag Oxford University Press

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