Reason and Value

Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926188-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

'Reason and Value' collects15 papers by leading contemporary philosophers, based of the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. It explores how Raz examined the connections between practical reason and the theory of value, which is at the very centre of modern philosophy as it is practised today.

Reason and Value collects 15 new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the work of Joseph Raz. Raz has made major contributions in a wide range of areas, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reaso

1. Shared Valuing and Frameworks for Practical Reasoning; 2. Reasons; 3. Can Desires Provide Reasons for Action?; 4. Enticing Reasons; 5. Disengaging Reason; 6. Raz on Values and Reasons; 7. The Truth in Deontology; 8. How to Engage Reason: The Problem of Regress; 9. Why am I my Brother's Keeper?; 10. Reasons: A Puzzling Duality?; 11. Projects, Relationships, and Reasons; 12. Egalitarianism, Choice-Sensitivity, and Accomodation; 13. Raz on the Intelligibility of Bad Acts; 14. What is it to Wrong Someone? A Puzzle about Justice; 15. The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, R. Jay

Smith, Michael

Pettit, Philip

Scheffler, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Über Autor(innen)

Wallace, R. Jay (University of California, Berkeley) / Pettit, Philip (Princeton University) / Scheffler, Samuel (University of California, Berkeley) / Smith, Michael