Practical Reason and Norms
Author(s): Joseph Raz (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: December 16, 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198268343
- ISBN-13: 9780198268345
Book Description
In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? Joseph Raz answers these three questions by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity.
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`Any serious reader should recognize the volume's rigor, sophistication, subtlety, and admirable ambitious sweep. It remains Raz's most impressive achievement ... the republication of Practical Reason and Norms ... is a welcome event. Anyone interested in legal or moral philosophy ... would be advised to pursue it.' Matthew H Kramer, Cambridge Law Journal
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A major publication from a leading contemporary thinker
Book Description
A major publication from a leading contemporary thinker
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Joseph Raz is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford and is Visiting Fellow of Jurisprudence at Columbia University in New York.
About the Author
Joseph Raz is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford and is Visiting Fellow of Jurisprudence at Columbia University in New York.
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