Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
In the past twenty years Joseph Raz has consolidated his reputation as one of the most acute, inventive, and energetic scholars currently at work in analytic moral and political theory. This new collection of essays forms a representative selection of his most significant contributions to a number of important debates, including the extent of political duty and obligation, and the issue of self-determination. He also examines aspects of the common (and ancient) theme of the relations between law and morality. This volume of essays, available in one volume for the first time, will be essential to legal philosophers and political theorists.
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Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
In the past twenty years Joseph Raz has consolidated his reputation as one of the most acute, inventive, and energetic scholars currently at work in analytic moral and political theory. This new collection of essays forms a representative selection of his most significant contributions to a number of important debates, including the extent of political duty and obligation, and the issue of self-determination. He also examines aspects of the common (and ancient) theme of the relations between law and morality. This volume of essays, available in one volume for the first time, will be essential to legal philosophers and political theorists.
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Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

by Joseph Raz
Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

by Joseph Raz

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In the past twenty years Joseph Raz has consolidated his reputation as one of the most acute, inventive, and energetic scholars currently at work in analytic moral and political theory. This new collection of essays forms a representative selection of his most significant contributions to a number of important debates, including the extent of political duty and obligation, and the issue of self-determination. He also examines aspects of the common (and ancient) theme of the relations between law and morality. This volume of essays, available in one volume for the first time, will be essential to legal philosophers and political theorists.

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ISBN-13: 9780198260691
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/04/1996
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.01(d)
Lexile: 1340L (what's this?)

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Balliol College

Table of Contents

I: The Ethics of Well-Being: Political ImplicationsDuties of Well-BeingRights and Individual Well-BeingFacing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic AbstinenceLiberalism, Scepticism, and DemocracyNational Self-Determination (with A. Margalit)Freedom of Expression and Personal IdentificationMulticulturalism: A Liberal PerspectiveII: Between Law and MoralityThe Problem about the Nature of LawThe Inner Logic of the LawLegal RightsAuthority, Law, and MoralityThe Relevance of CoherenceOn the Autonomy of Legal ReasoningThe Obligation to Obey: Revision and TraditionGovernment by ConsentThe Politics of the Rule of Law
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