Engaging reason on the theory of value and action - Raz, Joseph (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
When we are ourselves -- Agency, reason, and the good -- Incommensurability and agency -- Explaining normativity : on rationality and the justification of reason -- Explaining normativity : reason and the will -- Notes on value and objectivity -- Moral change and social relativism -- Mixing values -- The value of practice -- The truth in particularism -- The moral point of view -- The amoralist -- The central conflict : morality and self-interest
This text examines a set of fundamental questions about human thought and action. In these interconnected essays Joseph Raz looks at the nature of normativity, reason, and the will, the justification of reason, and the objectivity of value