
The Roots of Normativity
Joseph Raz(Author)
Ulrike Heuer(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 18. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-891366-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. This volume comprises twelve chapters which succinctly lay out his view, and determine its contours through some of its applications. The chapters also aim to clarify the ways in which normative reasons are made for rational beings like us. Raz's value-based account of normativity is brought to bear on many aspects of the lives of rational beings and their agency, and in particular, their ability to form and maintain relationships, and to live their lives as social beings with a sense of their identity.
Reviews / Votes
Raz was a highly systematic thinker whose passing brought an end to his intellectual journey. Able now to review its entire course, we can discern its leading ideas and trace their interconnections. . . . [Raz's is] among the most considerable and impressive intellectual achievements of our era * David Owens, Modern Law Review * This book . . . displays a Raz who will be familiar to many of us, with his very individual mixture of ferocity and generosity and his eye for the telling detail * Jonathan Dancy, Mind *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-891366-5 (9780198913665)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Joseph Raz, formally a Research Professor at The Dickson Poon School of Law since 2011, held positions at Oxford University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Columbia University. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and published a number of books including Between Authority and Interpretation (OUP, 2009) and The Authority of Law (OUP, 2009). He died in May 2022.
Author
Research Professor of LawResearch Professor of Law, King's College London
Editor
University College London
Content
Introduction by Ulrike Heuer
Part I: Normativity in Action
1: Intention and Value (2017)
2: Intention and Motivation (unpublished)
3: Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2015)
4: Can Moral Principles Change? (unpublished)
Part II: Reasons and Values
5: Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons (2016)
6: The Guise of the Bad (2016)
7: Normative Powers (unpublished)
8: Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? (2014)
Part III: The Normative in Our Lives
9: The Role of Well-Being (2004)
10: Attachments and Associated Reasons (unpublished)
11: Identity and Social Bonds (unpublished)
12: Normativity and the Other (unpublished)
References
Index
Part I: Normativity in Action
1: Intention and Value (2017)
2: Intention and Motivation (unpublished)
3: Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2015)
4: Can Moral Principles Change? (unpublished)
Part II: Reasons and Values
5: Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons (2016)
6: The Guise of the Bad (2016)
7: Normative Powers (unpublished)
8: Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? (2014)
Part III: The Normative in Our Lives
9: The Role of Well-Being (2004)
10: Attachments and Associated Reasons (unpublished)
11: Identity and Social Bonds (unpublished)
12: Normativity and the Other (unpublished)
References
Index