Are There Any Conventional Obligations?

There are reasons to believe that conventional obligations are impossible. Thus, it could be argued that for me to have an obligation to Φ in virtue of the fact that a convention so requires, it must be the case that I have a convention-independent obligation to do some thing else such that, given...

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Autor principal: Monti, Ezequiel
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Conventional obligations
Law
Derecho
Obligaciones
Genuinely conventional obligations
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12012
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325223000071
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-120122023-08-23T07:00:11Z Are There Any Conventional Obligations? Monti, Ezequiel Conventional obligations Law Derecho Obligaciones Genuinely conventional obligations There are reasons to believe that conventional obligations are impossible. Thus, it could be argued that for me to have an obligation to Φ in virtue of the fact that a convention so requires, it must be the case that I have a convention-independent obligation to do some thing else such that, given the existence of the convention, Φing is a way of doing just that. But, then, my obligation to Φ would not really be conventional at all. On closer inspection, so-called conventional obligations turn out to be no more than a specification of what our nonconventional obligations require given the circumstances. In this paper, I shall argue that contra to what this argument suggests, there can be genuinely conventional obliga tions. To do so, I develop a second-personal account of conventional obligations, accord ing to which obligations are grounded by conventions in virtue of an explanation that does not follow the indicated pattern Legal Theory , First View , pp. 1 - 32 (ISSN: 1469-8048) Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 2023-08-22T11:24:00Z 2023-08-22T11:24:00Z 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12012 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325223000071 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/ pp. 1-21 application/pdf application/pdf Cambridge University Press
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Law
Derecho
Obligaciones
Genuinely conventional obligations
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Law
Derecho
Obligaciones
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Are There Any Conventional Obligations?
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Obligaciones
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description There are reasons to believe that conventional obligations are impossible. Thus, it could be argued that for me to have an obligation to Φ in virtue of the fact that a convention so requires, it must be the case that I have a convention-independent obligation to do some thing else such that, given the existence of the convention, Φing is a way of doing just that. But, then, my obligation to Φ would not really be conventional at all. On closer inspection, so-called conventional obligations turn out to be no more than a specification of what our nonconventional obligations require given the circumstances. In this paper, I shall argue that contra to what this argument suggests, there can be genuinely conventional obliga tions. To do so, I develop a second-personal account of conventional obligations, accord ing to which obligations are grounded by conventions in virtue of an explanation that does not follow the indicated pattern
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