Being and Duty: The contribution of 20th-century Polish thinkers to the theory of imperatives and norms

Being and Duty is comprised of three components that: a) analyze the creative contribution to the theory of imperatives and norms provided by 20th-century Polish researchers; b) summarize their reflections and considerations; and c) offer a collection of the classic writings of Polish authors of the time, illustrating that their research covered practically the whole scope of the theory of imperatives and norms. Contents include: the preferential situation
• preferences and impulses
• decisions and tendencies
• the verbalization of preferences - imperatives
• the axiological situation - evaluations
• the obligational situation
• the genesis of the obligation
• criteria of factuality of obligation
• the gradation of obligations
• the verbalization of obligations - norms
• norms and consultatives
• instructions and optatives
• the imperative-normative argumentation.