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Remarks on The Ontology and The Normative Aspect of Constitutive Rules
Żełaniec, Wojciech
2010
Abstract
After some introductory remarks on constitutive rules I proceed to one problem still insufficiently
handled in the constitutive rules research: that of how coordinate the definitional
exigence that constitutive rules should define new (types of ) activities and, on the other
hand, the claim that constitutive rules should be a disjoint class with that of regulative or
prescriptive rules. I analyse briefly several examples, such as promises or interest-charging,
or ‘sprezzatura’, and set out a number of problems and complexities inherent in these examples.
Yet I also indicate commonalities shared by all of them.Short of offering a solution,
I put forward the hypothesis that constitutive rules may in some cases be in rerum natura
bound up with prescriptive norms and can be divided from them only in virtue of a theoretical
analysis.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
XII (2010) 1
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Wojciech Żełaniec, "Remarks on The Ontology and The Normative Aspect of Constitutive Rules", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XII (2010) 1, pp. 407−425.
Languages
en
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