Engaging reason : on the theory of value and action / / Joseph Raz

• Autore: Raz Joseph
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Reasoning; Ethics; Values
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction 1. When We are Ourselves 2. Agency, Reason, and the Good 3. Incommensurability and Agency 4. Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason 5. Explaining Normativity: Reason and the Will 6. Notes on Value and Objectivity 7. Moral Change and Social Relativism 8. Mixing Values 9. The Value of Practice 10. The Truth in Particularism 11. On the Moral Point of View 12. The Amoralist 13. The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 reasonon one side, and on the other side their dependence on social practices, and their susceptibility to change and improvement. He concludes with an illuminating explanation of self-interest and its relation to impersonal values in general and to morality in particular. Joseph Raz has been since the 1970s a prominent, original, and widely admired contributor to the study of norms, values, and reasons, not just in philosophy but in political and legal theory. This volume displays the power and unity of his thought on these subjects, and will be essential readingfor all who work on them.
• Titolo autorizzato: Engaging reason
• ISBN: 9780191519383; 0191519383
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807931703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II