Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: Normativity in Action -- Intention and Value -- Intention and Motivation -- Normativity: The Place of Reasoning -- Can Moral Principles Change? -- Part 2: Reasons and Values -- Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons -- The Guise of the Bad -- Normative Powers -- Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? -- Part 3: The Normative in Our Lives -- The Role of Well-Being -- Attachments and Associated Reasons -- Identity and Social Bonds -- Normativity and the Other.
Summary:
"This book concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: the explanation of normativity in its many guises. It lays out succinctly the view of normativity that Raz has sought to develop over many decades and determines its contours through some of its applications. In a nutshell, it is the view that understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for actions, are based on values. The book aims also to clarify the ways in which normative reasons are made for rational beings like us. It brings the account of normativity to bear on many aspects of the lives of rational beings, most abstractly, their agency, more concretely their ability to form and maintain relationships, and live their lives as social beings with a sense of their identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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