Joseph Raz

Engaging Reason

On the Theory of Value and Action

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Raz has been since the 1970s a prominent, original, and widely admired contributor to the study of norms, values, and reasons, not just in philosophy but in political and legal theory. This volume displays the power and unity of his thought on these subjects, and will be essential reading for all who work on them.

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Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 41g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238294
• ISBN-10: 0198238290
• Artikelnr.: 21406001

Autorenporträt

Joseph Raz is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford; and Visiting Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University, New York. Before becoming a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1972 he was Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at Rockefeller University, the Australian National University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, Yale Law School, and the University of Michigan, and a Visiting Mellon Fellow at Princeton University

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
1. When We Are Ourselves
2. Agency, Reason and the Good
3. Incommensurability and Agency
4. Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason
5. Explaining Normativity: Reason and the Will
6. Notes on Objectivity and Value
7. Moral Change and Social Relativism
8. Mixing Values
9. The Value of Practice
10. The Truth in Particularism
11. The Moral Point of View
12. The Amoralist
13. The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest
Index.