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Author Owens, David (David J.), author.

Title Bound by convention : obligations and social rules / David Owens
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource
Summary This work argues that being bound by a social convention can be valuable for its own sake. People need meaning in their lives, and conventions infuse our acts and attitudes with significance, rendering them right or wrong. Such rules bind us not just in virtue of their usefulness but also because their absence would impoverish our social world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 12, 2023)
Subject Convention (Philosophy)
Social ethics.
Social interaction -- Philosophy
Convention (Philosophy)
Social ethics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191918599
0191918598
9780192649478
0192649477
9780192649485
0192649485