Kontakt
Wie einkaufen
Versand
Kaufberater
Bound by Convention
Obligation and Social Rules
Englisch
100 b
30 Tage für die Rückgabe der Ware
Kunden kauften auch
/
Broschur
22.99
€
/
Broschur
21.99
€
/
Broschur
19.99
€
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.
Informationen zum Buch
Englisch
Verschenken Sie dieses Buch noch heute
Es ist ganz einfach
1 Legen Sie das Buch in Ihren Warenkorb und wählen Sie den Versand als Geschenk 2 Wir schicken Ihnen umgehend einen Gutschein 3 Das Buch wird an die Adresse des beschenkten Empfängers geliefertDas könnte Sie auch interessieren
/
Broschur
12.69
€
/
Broschur
47.89
€
Hallo! Ich bin Libroamiko, dein Buchberater.
Wie kann ich dir helfen?