From normativity to responsibility / Joseph Raz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raz, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Liability (Law).

Normativity (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? Joseph Raz examines the philosophical issues underlying these everyday questions. He explores the nature of normativity - the reasoning behind certain beliefs and emotions about how we should behave - and offers a novel account of responsibility.

Contents:

The hope

Regarding normativity. Practical reasons: explanatory and normative

Reasons: practical and adaptive

The guise of the good

Reason, rationality & normativity

Regarding practical reasoning. Epistemic modulations

Practical reasoning

The myth of instrumental rationality

Reasons in conflict

Numbers: with and without contractualism

Promoting value?

On responsibility. Being in the world

Responsibility and the negligence standard.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-968761-7

1-280-68009-1

9786613657022

0-19-162796-8

OCLC:

922970966