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Author Jadacki, Jacek Juliusz, author

Title Being and duty : the contribution of 20th-century Polish thinkers to the theory of imperatives and norms / Jacek Jadacki
Published Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, [2013]
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Contents Foreword; 1. Preferential situation; 2. Preferences and impulses, decisions and tendencies; 3. Verbalization of preferences: imperatives; 4. Axiological situation. Evaluations; 5. Obligational situation; 6. Genesis of the obligation; 7. Criteria of factuality of obligation; 8. Gradation of obligations; 9. Verbalization of obligations: norms; 10. Norms and consultatives, instructions and optatives; 11. Imperative-normative argumentation; Conclusion; Anthology; Kazimierz Twardowski. Indicatives, interrogatives, imperatives and optatives (1901); Jan Nuckowski. Practical theses (1903)
Kazimierz Twardowski. Volitional acts (1904)Władysław Witwicki. Allogenenetic conception of volition (1904); Franciszek Gabryl. Rationality of acts of will (1905/1906); Kazimierz Twardowski. Categorical and hypothetical imperatives (1905/1906); Leon Petrażycki. Imperative and imperative-attributive norms(1907c); Marian Borowski. The praxeological situation (1923); Marian Borowski. Praxeological logic (1924); Stanisław Cheliński. Types of imperatives (1925); Tadeusz Kotarbiński. Norms and normative theses (1929); Tadeusz Kotarbiński. Classification of norms (1931)
Jerzy Sztykgold. Negation of a norm (1936)Mieczysław Wallis-Walfisz. Normative phrases (1937); Izydora Dąmbska. Imperatives and relativized norms (1938); Henryk Elzenberg. Imperativism (1938); Leon Petrażycki. Positional logic (1939); Tadeusz Czeżowski. Intentions and evaluations (1946); Tadeusz Czeżowski. Types of intentions (1946); Tadeusz Kotarbiński. Evaluations, norms, imperatives (1947); Maria Ossowska. Norms and imperatives (1947); Maria Ossowska. Evaluation of norms (1947); Aleksander Witold Rudziński. Norms and declaratives (1947); Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Volitional acts (1948)
Jerzy Lande. Normative and teleological rules (1948)Jerzy Kalinowski. The grammatical structure of normative sentences (1953); Czesław Znamierowski. Fiat (1957); Wiesław Lang. The consequences of negating the norm (1960); Stefan Grzybowski. Normative relation (1961); Tadeusz Czeżowski. Modalities (1964a); Zdzisław Ziemba & Zygmunt Ziembiński. Calculus of norms (1964); Zygmunt Ziembiński. Consistency in the domain of norms (1964); Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Propositional positions (1965); Tadeusz Kotarbiński. The logic of imperatives (1966); Władysław Tatarkiewicz. Normative implications (1966)
Jan Woleński. Reduction of norms to imperatives (1966)Zygmunt Ziembiński. Verbalization of norms (1966b); Zygmunt Ziembiński. Technical directives (1966b); Zygmunt Ziembiński. Instrumental and axiological consequence (1966b); Leszek Nowak. Evaluation of performatives (1968b); Franciszek Studnicki. The semantic function of norms (1968); Zdzisław Ziemba. Paradoxes of deontic logic (1968); Zdzisław Ziemba. Interpretation of deontic logic (1969); Zdzisław Najder. Imperativism (1971); Jerzy Kalinowski. Deontic logicians avant la lettre (1972)
Summary The book is comprised of three components. The first component analyses the creative contribution to the theory of imperatives and norms provided by 20th-century Polish researchers. The second component summarizes their reflections and considerations. The third component is an anthology of the classic writings of Polish authors of the time; it constitutes an illustration of the first part and indicates that their research covered practically the whole scope of this theory. Author Jacek Jadacki (born 1946) is professor at Warsaw University. His scholarly production includes approximately hundre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-532) and index
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Subject Philosophy, Polish -- 20th century.
Commands (Logic)
Normativity (Ethics)
Commands (Logic)
Normativity (Ethics)
Philosophy, Polish
Philosophie
Norm Ethik
Logik
Imperativ
Polen
Form Electronic book
ISBN 8378860558
9788378860556