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Engaging reason : on the theory of value and action / Joseph Raz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raz, Joseph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reason.
- Reasoning.
- Values.
- Will.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages)
- Other Title:
- On the theory of value and action
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text examines a set of fundamental questions about human thought and action. In these interconnected essays Joseph Raz looks at the nature of normativity, reason, and the will, the justification of reason, and the objectivity of value.
- Contents:
- When we are ourselves
- Agency, reason, and the good
- Incommensurability and agency
- Explaining normativity : on rationality and the justification of reason
- Explaining normativity : reason and the will
- Notes on value and objectivity
- Moral change and social relativism
- Mixing values
- The value of practice
- The truth in particularism
- The moral point of view
- The amoralist
- The central conflict : morality and self-interest.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159827-5
- 0-19-924800-1
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