Sharing Without Reckoning: Imperfect Right and the Norms of Reciprocity - Couverture souple

Schumaker, Millard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889202087 ISBN 13 : 9780889202085

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Sharing without Reckoning is the first full-scale treatment of the ancient and persistent distinction between ""perfect"" and ""imperfect"" rights and duties. It examines the use of the distinction in jurisprudential, philosophical and religious material from Classical times until the present; proposes a connection between imperfect right and the ""norms of reciprocity"" (as that complex set of ideas has been developed in anthropology and sociology); and argues that contemporary understanding of the nature of morality and of moral reasoning would be well served by the reintroduction of this traditional doctrine.

This enlightening study includes a notable chapter reassessing the role of imperfect obligation in the thought of Immanuel Kant, portraying a ""kinder and gentler"" Kant.

Concluding by elaborating ways in which concepts such as love, justice and the boundary between law and morality might be reconstructed - taking the fact of imperfect right seriously - this work will serve as a key reference for scholars interested in the complex question of ""perfect"" and ""imperfect"" rights and duties.

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À propos de l?auteur

Millard Schumaker is both Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Queen's University, and Professor at Queen's Theological College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889202087
• ISBN 13: 9780889202085
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 126
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• Personne responsable: non disponible