For the goth magazine, see Permission (magazine)

One is said to have a permission when he or she may (or is allowed to) perform some action. There are legal and ethical permissions, but these can also belong to some other normative realms, like etiquette and games.

Permissions, like obligations, depend on norms or institutions.

See also

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• Consent
• Deontic logic
• File system permissions (computing)

Further reading

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• Alexy, Robert, Theorie der Grundrechte, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M.: 1985. Translation: A theory of constitutional rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2002.
• Raz, Joseph, Practical reason and norms, Oxford University, Oxford: 1975.
• von Wright, G. H., Norm and action. A logical enquiry, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1963.

Philosophical terminology

Permission