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Practical Reason and Norms [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated Dec. 1999ISBN:
  • 9780198268345
  • 0198268343 (Trade Paper)
DDC classification:
  • 170 18
LOC classification:
  • B105
Online resources: Oxford Scholarship Online LawSummary: Annotation 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 account of normativity.
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Annotation 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 account of normativity.

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