Joseph Raz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Raz was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at Balliol College, Oxford, and was latterly a part-time professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London. He received the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2018.
Joseph Raz's Published Works
Published Works
- The Morality of Freedom. (1987) (1810)
- The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality (1979) (759)
- National self-determination (1990) (609)
- The Authority of Law (1983) (556)
- Practical Reason and Norms (1975) (545)
- Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics (1996) (311)
- Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence (1995) (304)
- Ethics In The Public Domain (1994) (284)
- Legal Principles and the Limits of Law (1972) (262)
- From Normativity to Responsibility (2012) (236)
- Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action (2001) (230)
- The Problem of Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception (2007) (228)
- Disagreement in Politics (1998) (205)
- The concept of a legal system (1970) (202)
- Authority, Law and Morality (1985) (176)
- The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of Legal System (1980) (173)
- Between authority and interpretation (2009) (170)
- Human Rights Without Foundations (2007) (156)
- Voluntary Obligations and Normative Powers (1972) (125)
- Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm (1974) (121)
- On the Nature of Rights (1984) (115)
- Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason (2009) (112)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment (2001) (107)
- The Myth of Instrumental Rationality (2017) (106)
- Incommensurability and Agency (2002) (97)
- Two Views of the Nature of the Theory of Law: A Partial Comparison (1998) (95)
- Justifying Toleration: Autonomy, toleration, and the harm principle (1988) (86)
- Human Rights in the Emerging World Order (2010) (85)
- The practice of value (2003) (81)
- Law, Morality and Society (1978) (81)
- Reasons for Action, Decisions and Norms (1975) (72)
- Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason (1999) (71)
- The Rule of Law and its Virtue (2017) (69)
- On the Authority and Interpretation of Constitutions: Some Preliminaries (2009) (66)
- Can There Be a Theory of Law (2007) (61)
- Promises in Morality and Law (1982) (60)
- Facing Up: A Reply (1989) (59)
- Comments on The Morality of Freedom (2016) (58)
- HART ON MORAL RIGHTS AND LEGAL DUTIES (1984) (56)
- INCORPORATION BY LAW (2004) (55)
- Free Expression and Personal Idenification (1991) (53)
- About Morality and the Nature of Law (2003) (48)
- Responsibility and the Negligence Standard (2010) (45)
- Law, Morality, and Society: Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart (1978) (44)
- VII—Value Incommensurability: Some Preliminaries (1986) (42)
- The truth in particularism (2000) (42)
- Right-Based Moralities (1986) (41)
- On Respect, Authority, and Neutrality: A Response (2010) (41)
- Multiculturalism: a Liberal Perspective (2017) (40)
- The Purity of the Pure Theory (1999) (38)
- Rights and Politics (1995) (36)
- Authority and Consent (1981) (36)
- Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (36)
- Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (36)
- Reasons: Practical and Adaptive (2007) (36)
- Numbers, with and without contractualism (2003) (34)
- The Law's Own Virtue (2019) (33)
- The Obligation to Obey the Law (1979) (32)
- Rights and Individual Well‐Being (1992) (32)
- On the nature of law (1996) (31)
- The Obligation to Obey: Revision and Tradition (2014) (31)
- The Claims of Reflective Equilibrium (1982) (29)
- The Politics of the Rule of Law (1990) (26)
- Reasons: Explanatory and Normative (2007) (26)
- Postema on Law's Autonomy and Public Practical Reasons: A Critical Comment (1998) (26)
- Intention in Interpretation (1999) (25)
- The Trouble with Particularism (Dancy's Version) (2006) (24)
- Agency, Reason, and the Good (2002) (24)
- The Identity of Legal Systems (1971) (24)
- On the Autonomy of Legal Reasoning (1993) (23)
- When We Are Ourselves: The Active and the Passive (2002) (22)
- Liberalism, Autonomy, and the Politics of Neutral Concern (1982) (22)
- Legal Positivism and the Sources of Law (1979) (21)
- On Lawful Governments (1970) (20)
- The Role of Well-Being (2004) (19)
- Dworkin: A New Link in the Chain (1986) (19)
- Respect for Law (1979) (18)
- The Argument from Justice, or How Not to Reply to Legal Positivism (2007) (18)
- Duties of Well-Being (1995) (18)
- Reasoning with Rules (2001) (18)
- Government by Consent (1995) (17)
- Human Rights in the New World Order (2009) (17)
- Liberalism, Scepticism, and Democracy (1995) (16)
- Principles of Equality (1978) (14)
- The Central Conflict: Morality and Self‐Interest (2002) (14)
- Liberty and Trust (2001) (13)
- Law and Value in Adjudication (1979) (13)
- Moral Change and Social Relativism (1994) (13)
- Rethinking Exclusionary Reasons: A Second Edition of Joseph Raz's "Practical Reason and Norms"@@@Practical Reason and Norms (1993) (13)
- The Functions of Law (1979) (12)
- Legal Reasons, Sources, and Gaps* (1979) (11)
- Is There a Reason to Keep Promises (2012) (11)
- H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992) (1993) (11)
- Reasons for Action: Reasons: practical and adaptive (2009) (11)
- PROFESSOR A. ROSS AND SOME LEGAL PUZZLES (1972) (10)
- Instrumental Rationality: A Reprise (2017) (10)
- Professor Dworkin's Theory of Rights (1978) (10)
- The Inner Logic of the Law (1995) (9)
- Explaining Normativity: Reason and the Will (2002) (9)
- Reason, Reasons and Normativity (2008) (9)
- Normativity: The Place of Reasoning: Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2015) (9)
- The Morality of Obedience (1985) (9)
- Practical Conflicts: Personal Practical Conflicts (2004) (9)
- On The Guise of the Good (2008) (8)
- A Hedgehog's Unity of Value (2014) (8)
- Morality as Interpretation (1991) (8)
- Cow´s milk protein intolerance: Epidemiological study (1989) (7)
- Hans Kelsen, Essay in legal and moral philosophy (1976) (7)
- I–Joseph Raz (1997) (7)
- BEING IN THE WORLD (2010) (7)
- The Claims of Law (1979) (6)
- On the Value of Distributional Equality (2008) (6)
- Personal Well‐Being (1988) (6)
- How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is? (1999) (6)
- The problem about the nature of law (1982) (6)
- A Right to Dissent? I.Civil Disobedience (1979) (6)
- Objectivity in Law and Morals: Notes on Value and Objectivity (2000) (6)
- Interpretation: Pluralism and Innovation (2009) (6)
- The concept of law [Clarendon Press, 1994] (1994) (6)
- Death in Our Life (2013) (6)
- Normative Powers (2019) (6)
- Agency and Luck (2009) (5)
- THE INSTITUTIONAL NATURE OF LAW1 (1975) (5)
- Darwall on Rational Care (2006) (5)
- Interpretation Without Retrieval (2009) (5)
- Why the State (2014) (5)
- The Future of State Sovereignty (2017) (4)
- On Waldron's Critique of Raz on Human Rights (2018) (4)
- Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2014) (4)
- Comments and Responses (2003) (4)
- The Guise of the Bad (2017) (3)
- The Practice of Value - Reply (2007) (3)
- On the Moral Point of View (2002) (3)
- Value: A Menu of Questions (2011) (3)
- The Value of Practice (2002) (3)
- Reasons in Conflict (2011) (3)
- Reason, Rationality, and Normativity (2011) (3)
- The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (1998) (3)
- The Force of Numbers (2004) (3)
- Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? (2022) (3)
- A Morality Fit for Humans (1993) (3)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment: Respecting people (2001) (2)
- The Moral Impact Theory of Law (2020) (2)
- Speaking With One Voice: On Dworkinian Integrity and Coherence (2007) (2)
- THINKING AND DOING: The Philosophical Foundations of Institutions, by Hector‐Neri Castañeda (1977) (2)
- On reasons for action (1999) (2)
- Postscript to the Second Edition: Rethinking exclusionary reasons (1999) (2)
- Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons (2014) (2)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment: Attachment and uniqueness (2001) (2)
- The Justification of Authority (1988) (2)
- On Normativity and Responsibility: Responses (2013) (2)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment: The value of staying alive (2001) (1)
- Intention and Motivation (2017) (1)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment: Introduction (2001) (1)
- On Dancy’s account of practical reasoning (2020) (1)
- Susan Wolf on the Meaning of Life: A Review (2010) (1)
- Liberty and Rights (1988) (1)
- Rescuing Jerry from (Basic) Principles (2010) (1)
- The Roots of Normativity (2022) (1)
- Can Moral Principles Change (2017) (1)
- Authority and Reason (1988) (1)
- Kelsen’s Theory of Legal System (1980) (1)
- Value, Respect, and Attachment: Universality and difference (2001) (1)
- More on Explaining Value: Replies and Comparisons (2005) (1)
- Legal Systems as Systems of Laws (1980) (1)
- Autonomy and Pluralism (1988) (1)
- Law and Moral Obligation (1982) (1)
- SORENSEN: VAGUENESS HAS NO FUNCTION IN LAW (2001) (1)
- Intention and value (2015) (1)
- Por qué interpretar (1996) (1)
- The Authority of States (1988) (1)
- Austin’s Theory of Legal System (1980) (0)
- Respect, Authority & Neutrality: A Response (2010) (0)
- 1981 Authority and Consent (2019) (0)
- Consequences of Utilitarianism. By D. H. Hodgson. [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967, 187 pp. 35s.] (1968) (0)
- LegaL principLes in croatian LegaL science: 1 FundamentaL character and indeterminacy (2020) (0)
- Consequentialism: An Introduction (1988) (0)
- Can Basic Moral Principles Change? (2022) (0)
- THE TRUE SCOPE OF RING (2018) (0)
- Legal Systems as Systems of Norms (1980) (0)
- The Problem of Political Freedom (1988) (0)
- Freedom and Autonomy (1988) (0)
- Grand Valley State Plural Cultures , Contested Territories : „ „ o o (2009) (0)
- Identity and Social Bonds (2018) (0)
- Non-mandatory norms (1999) (0)
- A Right to Dissent? II.Conscientious Objection (1979) (0)
- On the Existence of Legal Systems (1980) (0)
- PHS volume 54 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
- Rejoinders to Hart on Rules and Rights (1979) (0)
- On the Individuation of Laws (1980) (0)
- Why Interpret?1 (2009) (0)
- More Essays in Legal Philosophy: General Assessments of Legal Philosophies (1973) (0)
- Attachments and Associated Reasons (2011) (0)
- Wolf, Susan.The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. 160. $24.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- What is the difference between conceptual and moral relativism? Rejecting the nature-value contrast, with help from Joseph Raz (0)
- Neutral Political Concern (1988) (0)
- Human rights: A critique of the Raz/Rawls approach: On Waldron's critique of raz on human rights (2018) (0)
- On the Socratic Maxim (2000) (0)
- The Exclusion of Ideals (1988) (0)
- Review: Ralph Wedgwood, The Value of Rationality (2018) (0)
- The Democratic Deficit (2018) (0)
- Book reviews (1975) (0)
- RAZIAN AUTHORITY AND LAW RAZIAN AUTHORITY AND LAW By JAMES SPECYAL, B.A. A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts (2012) (0)
- Notes for Contributors (1985) (0)
- Respect, Authority & Neutrality (2010) (0)
- Normativity and the Other (2021) (0)
- Normativity (2022) (0)
- The Value of Rationality, by Ralph Wedgwood (2018) (0)
- Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis (2013) (0)
- Postscript Sources, Normativity, and Individuation1 (1980) (0)
- Are there commendatory reasons? (2021) (0)
- Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2018) (0)
- On the Moral Significance of Sacrifice (2018) (0)
- Review: Aspects of Reason (2003) (0)
- LEGAL POSITIVISM: 5V4 MYTHS (2012) (0)
- Elements of a Theory of Norms (1980) (0)
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