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Title Reason and value : themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz / edited by R. Jay Wallace [and others]
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 429 pages)
Contents Contributors; 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 Accommodation; 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 LivesBibliography; Index
Summary Reason and Value collects fifteen brand-new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. The subtlety and power of Raz's reflections on ethical topics - including especially his explorations of the connections between practical reason and the theory of value - make his writings a fertile source for anyone working in this area. The volume honours Raz's accomplishments in the area of ethical theorizing, and will contribute to. an enhanced appreciation of the significance of his work for the subject. - ;Reason and Value collects 15 new papers by l
Notes Originally published: 2004
Derived from papers presented at a conference at the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University in March 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-422) and index
Notes English
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Subject Raz, Joseph -- Congresses
SUBJECT Raz, Joseph fast
Subject Ethics -- Congresses
Reason -- Congresses
Values -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Reason
Values
Ethiek.
Waarden.
Rede (filosofie)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Wallace, R. Jay
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