REASONS, RULES, AND RIGHTS (Rezony, pravyla, prava)

• Authors: Gnassounou Bruno
• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

Two meanings of the notion of duty are distinguished: the first one refers to practical necessity being an expression of the practical rationality; the second one refers to a normative order of obligations. There were temptations to reduce practical rationality to logic of norms, for example in Kant. Some major difficulties of this kind of analysis were pointed out by V. Descombes. The author explains the impossibility of the reverse reduction that is the reduction of normative notions to one of practical rationality. As a case study the conception of Hobbes is discussed in details. The author argues in favor of an implicit idea presented in Hobbes according to which the rights are conventional human institutions that nevertheless are founded on 'natural' reasoning , that is, as Descombes put it, on 'reasoning which aims the human good'.

Keywords

EN

HOBBES THOMAS; NORM; PRACTICAL NECESSITY; RATIONALITY; RULE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Journal: Філософська Думка
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 67-74
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gnassounou Bruno

• Bruno Gnassounou, University of Nantes, Department of Philosophy (for more information address the editor of 'Filosofska dumka', vul. Triokhsviatytelska, 4, 01001, Kyiv-01, Ukraine)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10UAAAAA08107