Getting Personal Some Notes on the Relationship Between Personal and Impersonal Obligation

The contribution of this paper lies in the analysis of the relationship between impersonal and personal deontic notions, keeping them as close to standard deontic logic as possible. In doing so, we offer arguments against reducing both personal notions to impersonal notions, and impersonal notions to personal notions. We discover that we need to introduce two new notions of impersonal obligation and permission. Finally we argue in favour of one particular representation of ought-to-do and permitted-to-do statements.