The article offers an overview of the deontic theory developed by the philosophical school of Mīmāṃsā, which is, and has been since the last centuries BCE, the main source of normative concepts in Sanskrit thought. Thus, the Mīmāṃsā deontics is interesting for any historian of philosophy and constitutes a thought-provoking occasion to rethink deontic concepts, taking advantage of centuries of systematic reflections on these topics. Some comparison with notions currently used in Euro-American normative theories and metaethical principles is offered in order to show possible points of contact and deep divergences. In more detail, after an introduction explaining the methodology and aims of our work, we discuss how Mīmāṃsā authors distinguished and defined some fundamental deontic concepts, such as different types of prescriptions and prohibitions. We then discuss how Mīmāṃsā authors approached the problem of conflicts among commands without jeopardising the validity of the normative text issuing them. In the second part of the article we introduce our formal apparatus, which is construed around the main taxonomic and conceptual distinctions used in the first part. Our formal rendering captures the most important features of the Mīmāṃsā theory and can thus serve as a concise and rigorous presentation of it for scholars working in deontic logic.

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Mīmāṃsā中的道义概念及其冲突：走向解释

本文概述了由 Mīmāṃsā 哲学流派发展的道义理论，该理论自公元前上个世纪以来一直是梵文思想中规范概念的主要来源。因此，Mīmāṃsā 道义对任何哲学史家来说都很有趣，并且构成了一个发人深省的机会，可以利用对这些主题的几个世纪的系统反思来重新思考道义概念。提供了与欧美规范理论和元伦理学原则中当前使用的概念的一些比较，以显示可能的联系点和深刻的分歧。更详细地，在介绍了我们工作的方法论和目标之后，我们将讨论 Mīmāṃsā 作者如何区分和定义一些基本的道义概念，例如不同类型的处方和禁令。然后我们讨论 Mīmāṃsā 作者如何处理命令之间的冲突问题，而不会危及发布它们的规范文本的有效性。在文章的第二部分，我们介绍了我们的正式工具，它是围绕第一部分中使用的主要分类学和概念区别来解释的。我们的正式渲染捕捉了 Mīmāṃsā 理论的最重要特征，因此可以作为研究道义逻辑的学者对其进行简明而严谨的介绍。