On the Constitutive Force of Regulative Rules

The paper deals with the problem of delimitation of regulative and constitutive rules. I argue that while regulative rules are and remain a genus of their own, they do have a constitutive import, because they (i) define new forms of behaviour (behaviour compliant with them), (ii) take constituted e...

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Autor principal: Wojciech Zełaniec
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Publicado: Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/06c5d72c71414b1aa4a55ebca44afe5c
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Sumario:The paper deals with the problem of delimitation of regulative and constitutive rules. I argue that while regulative rules are and remain a genus of their own, they do have a constitutive import, because they (i) define new forms of behaviour (behaviour compliant with them), (ii) take constituted entities as “input”, (iii) redefine old forms of behaviour as such to which a deontic modality applies and (iv) help to carve out new possibilities of behaviour from a continuum of only potentially distinguishable possibilities.