Engaging Reason On the Theory of Value and Action

Name: Engaging Reason On the Theory of Value and Action
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ISBN: 9780199248001

ISBN-10: 0199248001

ISBN-13: 9780199248001

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph Raz

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Engaging Reason offers a penetrating examination of a set of fundamental questions about human thought and action. In these tightly argued and interconnected essays Joseph Raz examines the nature of normativity, reason, and the will; the justification of reason; and the objectivity of value. He argues for the centrality, but also demonstrates the limits, of reason in action and belief. He suggests that our life is most truly our own when our various emotions, hopes, desires, intentions, and actions are guided by reason. He explores the universality of value and of principles of reason on one side, and on the other side their dependence on social practices, and their susceptibility to change…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



engaging Reason


Engaging Reason


Acknowledgements


Introduction



When We Are Ourselves: The Active and the Passive



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


Appendix



The Value of Practice



The Truth in Particularism



On the Moral Point of View



The Amoralist



The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest


Index