Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action - Softcover

Raz, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199248001 ISBN 13: 9780199248001

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2002

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Review

`Review from other book by this author 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 .it deserves to be widely read and discussed.
'
Jonathan Wolff, THES

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199248001
• ISBN 13: 9780199248001
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 346