BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261208T174500 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_42720_7ab9f6c619f550dc0fe2e3707d93a025@www.middletemple.org.uk SUMMARY:Philosophy and the Law | ‘Ought’ and Obligation X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n < head>\n \n \n \n

< u>Prof John Hyman

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Disagreement about whether ‘the “ought" of moral obligation’ (Bernard Williams’ phrase) implies ‘ca n’ stems mainly from confusing the ideas of ‘ought ’ and obligation. The distinction between them ref lects a deeper distinction between the rational an d ethical dimensions of human agency\, and explain s why ‘ought to’ does imply ‘can’ whereas ‘is mora lly obligated to’ does not.

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Student members (including transferring la wyers) must attend all elements of the event in or der to be awarded the Qualifying Session. This inc ludes any lecture/talk/reception/dinner/speeches.< /p>\n \n DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n \n Prof John Hyman\n \n \n \n Disagre ement about whether ‘the “ought" of moral obligati on’ (Bernard Williams’ phrase) implies ‘can’ stems mainly from confusing the ideas of ‘ought’ and ob ligation. The distinction between them reflects a deeper distinction between the rational and ethica l dimensions of human agency\, and explains why ‘o ught to’ does imply ‘can’ whereas ‘is morally obli gated to’ does not.\n \n \n \n \n Student members (including transferring lawyers) must attend all e lements of the event in order to be awarded the Qu alifying Session. This includes any lecture/talk/r eception/dinner/speeches.\n \n \n \n CATEGORIES:Domus Function CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20261208T174500 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261208T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261208T203000 LOCATION:Sherrard Room\n Ashley Building\n Middle Temple La ne\n London\, EC4Y 9BT\n United Kingdom\n URL:https://www.middletemple.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=42720 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR