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The practice of value / Joseph Raz ; with commentaries by Christine M. Korsgaard, Robert Pippin, Bernard Williams ; edited and introduced by R. Jay Wallace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raz, Joseph, author.
- Series:
- Berkeley Tanner lectures.
- The Berkeley Tanner lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Values.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages)
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Practice of Value is an exploration of a pervasive but puzzling aspect of our world: value. The starting-point is the Berkeley Tanner Lectures delivered in 2001 by the leading moral theorist Joseph Raz. His aim is to make sense of the dependence of value on social practice, without falling back on cultural relativism. The lectures are followed by discussions from three eminent philosophers, Christine Korsgaard, Robert Pippin, and Bernard Williams, and a response from. Raz. The result is a fascinating debate, accessible to readers throughout and beyond philosophy, about the relations betwee
- Contents:
- Introduction; THE PRACTICE OF VALUE; The Thesis; Implications; COMMENTS; The Dependence of Value on Humanity; The Conditions of Value; Relativism, History, and the Existence of Values; REPLY TO COMMENTATORS; More on Explaining Value: Replies and Comparisons.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-75539-3
- 0-19-153210-X
- 0-19-151551-5
- 1-4294-2188-6
- OCLC:
- 437109391
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