Obligation to do as a regulatory sanction in Brazil

The Canon Law as a Legal System - Function, Obligation, and Sanction

pursuit of justice was allowed to overshadow the necessities of the concrete pursuit of justice through the mechanics of a legal system. The same didacticism affected other aspects of the canonical system, albeit not always in as obvious ways. We see it, for instance, in the area of appellate procedure where the canon law seems to show less concern than either the Roman law or the medieval Engl...

Imperative Change and Obligation to Do

You ought to do something ! The logic of obligation as weakest permission

This paper studies the following interpretation of obligations: A person i ought to do A in a situation S just in case everything else i may (and can) do in S is consistent with A. In such case A can be called the weakest permission that i has in S. We show that, under this interpretation, obligation and permission are not dual notions, and that it gives rise to an interesting interplay between...

Do family doctors have an obligation to facilitate research?

In the third of a series of articles examining ethical issues in primary care research, we argue that family doctors, when considering what they ought to do in relation to research, have a positive obligation to participate in research and that one means of discharging this obligation is to collaborate in research studies by aiding recruitment. We offer three arguments in support of this obliga...

Agential obligation as non-agential personal obligation plus agency

I explore various ways of integrating the framework for predeterminism, agency, and ability in [P. McNamara, Nordic J. Philos. Logic 5 (2) (2000) 135] with a framework for obligations. However, the agential obligation operator explored here is defined in terms of a non-agential yet personal obligation operator and a non-deontic (and non-normal) agency operator. This is contrary to the main curr...