In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the natu...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of authority and what is involved in law's claim to moral authority. He then develops a detailed explanation of the nature of law and legal systems, presenting a s...(展开全部)

约瑟夫．拉兹（Joseph Raz），牛津大学法哲学教授、巴利奥尔学院（Balliol College）研究员，哥伦比亚大学法学院法理学访问教授。主要从事法律、道德和政治哲学教学与研究工作，在法理学、政治哲学、道德与实践理性领域颇有建树。拉兹是当代道德、法律与政治领域最杰出的学者之一。 拉兹1963年毕业于耶路撒冷希伯来大学；1967年获牛津大学哲学博士学位；1972年成为牛津大学巴利奥尔学院法学研究员和导师；自1977年在哲学系工作，1985年牛津大学为了表彰拉兹在法哲学领域的杰出贡献，专门为他新设了一个学术职位：法哲学教授。拉兹曾先后在多所著名大学做过访问教授，如洛克菲勒大学，加利福尼亚大学，耶鲁大学，普林斯顿大学，密歇根大学，澳大利亚国家学院，等。 拉兹是英国研究院研究员、美国人文与自然科学院名誉会员。主要著作有：《法律体系的概念——一种法律体...(展开全部)

a ~This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.a (TM) These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit th...(展开全部)

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one of France's foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work tha...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those ...(展开全部)

In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? Joseph Raz answers these three questions by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified a...(展开全部)