Content and Competence : a Descriptive Approach to the Concept of Rights.
Just what is a right? Jakob Weissinger approaches this central problem of jurisprudence by critically examining the purpose of such normative concepts and carefully analysing the fundamental elements of normative practice like actions, decisions, the logic of norms and values as well as the pluralit...
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| Language: | English |
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Tübingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
2019.
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| Series: | Ars Aequi cahiers. Rechtstheorie.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Titel; Acknowledgements; Contents Overview; Contents; Table of Figures; I. Methodological Remarks & Clarifications; 1. Approaching Rights; a) Conceptual versus Justificatory; aa) Definitions: Some Introductory Remarks; bb) The Scope of Rights; b) Descriptive Jurisprudence versus Normative Jurisprudence; aa) Different Types of Reasons; bb) The Methodology-Debate: A Discussion at Cross-Purposes; 2. Overview of Content; II. The General Functionality of Normative Systems; 1. Normative Systems I: The Concept of a Normative System; a) Addresser and Addressees; b) Consistency
- Aa) Specificity of Actionsbb) Normative Relevance of Circumstances; cc) Persistence of Normative Judgements; c) Theoretical Relevance of the Concept; 2. Freedom of Decision and Actions; a) Necessary Presupposition: Undetermined Decisions; b) The Concept of Actions; aa) The Standard Conception; bb) The Causal Structure of Action Explanations; cc) Breadth and Generality of Action Descriptions; (1) Breadth; (2) Generality; c) Frankfurt's Critique of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities; d) Conclusion; 3. Deontic Logic; a) Fundamentals of Standard Deontic Logic; b) Revision of SDL
- Aa) Two Perspectives on Actions
- Two Levels of Deontic Logic(1) Actions and Omissions; (2) Two Kinds of Deontological Statements; bb) Two Meanings of Permission; cc) Analogy between Alethic and Deontic Modal Logic?; (1) Constructing an Analogy: Two Levels of Statements; (2) Deconstructing the Analogy: Understanding and Assessment of 'Alternatives'; (a) Alternatives I: Understanding; (b) Alternatives II: Assessment; (3) Distinct Epistemological Interests; (4) Excursus: Dilemmas as the Missing Theoretical Piece in SDL; dd) Imperative Logic as an Objection?; c) Implications of the New Scheme
- D) Conclusion4. Principles, Norms and Values; a) Introduction: Principle Theory; aa) Principle Theory: Central Theses; bb) Central Points of Criticism; cc) Terminological Issues; b) Principles, Norms and Prescriptions; aa) Prescriptions as Distinct from Norms and Principles; (1) Normativity as a Process; (2) Structural Features of Principles, Norms and Prescriptions; bb) From Principle to Prescription; cc) The Impracticability of Principles; dd) Conclusion; c) The Problem of 'Hard Cases'; aa) Principles as Normative Properties? The Relation of Axiology and Normativity
- Bb) Rule Account vs. Principle Accountcc) Fallacies of the Rule Account; dd) Conclusion; d) Conclusion; 5. Normative Systems II: The Multiplicity of Normative Systems; a) Introduction: Multiple Normative Systems in Practice; b) Vertical Extension of Normative Systems: Justification and Plurality; aa) Justification: The Infinite Regress of Justification; bb) Plurality I: The Fact of Competing Judgements in Subordinate Systems; cc) Plurality II: The Possibility of Joint Validity or Four Kinds of Normative 'Consistency'; c) Excursus I: Supererogatory Actions