Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.
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Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.
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by Joseph Raz
Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
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Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action

by Joseph Raz

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Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199248001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/02/2002
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 346
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.74(d)

Table of Contents

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 Objectivity and Value; 7. Moral Change and Social Relativism; 8. Mixing Values; 9. The Value of Practice; 10. The Truth in Particularism; 11. The Moral Point of View; 12. The Amoralist; 13. The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest; Index.
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