Practical Reason and Norms

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...

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.

约瑟夫．拉兹（Joseph Raz，1939—），美国哥伦比亚大学法学院教授, 2006年以前任英国牛津大学法哲学教授、Balliol College研究员。目前为伦敦国王学院访问教授。法律、道德以及政治哲学家，法律实证主义最强有力的辩护者之一。