DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-L118-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved May 06, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/promising/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved May 06, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/promising/v-1
Article Summary
Promising is often seen as a social practice with specific rules, determining when a promise has been made and requiring that duly made promises be kept. Accordingly, many philosophers have sought to explain the obligation to keep a promise by appealing to a duty to abide by such rules, whether because of the social benefits of the practice or because fairness requires one to abide by it. Others see breaking a promise as a direct wrong to the person whose expectations are disappointed.
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Scanlon, T.M.. Promising, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-L118-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/promising/v-1.
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Scanlon, T.M.. Promising, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-L118-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/promising/v-1.
Copyright © 1998-2024 Routledge.