Practical Reason In Law And Morality

Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191021473

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The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate to human nature, and how do they enter practical reasoning? How do the concepts of 'right and wrong' fit in, and in what way do they involve questions of mutual trust among human beings? How does our moral freedom - our freedom to form our own moral commitments - relate to our responsibilities to each other? How is this final question transposed into law and legal commitments? This book explores these questions, vital to understanding the nature of law and morality. It presents a clear account of practical reason, valuable to students of moral philosophy and jurisprudence at undergraduate or postgraduate levels. For more advanced scholars it also offers a reinterpretation of Kant's views on moral autonomy and Smith's on self-command, marrying Smith's 'moral sentiments' to Kant's 'categorical imperative' in a novel way. The book concludes and underpins the author's Law, State, and Practical Reason series. Taken together the books offer an overarching theory of the nature of law and legal reason, the role of the State, and the nature of moral reason and judgement.

Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191622007

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Practical Reason in Law and Morality by Neil MacCormick Pdf

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate to human nature, and how do they enter practical reasoning? How do the concepts of 'right and wrong' fit in, and in what way do they involve questions of mutual trust among human beings? How does our moral freedom - our freedom to form our own moral commitments - relate to our responsibilities to each other? How is this final question transposed into law and legal commitments? This book explores these questions, vital to understanding the nature of law and morality. It presents a clear account of practical reason, valuable to students of moral philosophy and jurisprudence at undergraduate or postgraduate levels. For more advanced scholars it also offers a reinterpretation of Kant's views on moral autonomy and Smith's on self-command, marrying Smith's 'moral sentiments' to Kant's 'categorical imperative' in a novel way. The book concludes and underpins the author's Law, State and Practical Reason series. Taken together the books offer an overarching theory of the nature of law and legal reason, the role of the State, and the nature of moral reason and judgement.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191018589

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Practical Reason and Norms by Joseph Raz Pdf

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: 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? All three questions are answered 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. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons. Exclusionary reasons are explained, and used to unlock the secrets of orders, promises, and decisions as well as rules. Games are used to exemplify normative systems. Inevitably, the analysis extends to some aspects of normative discourse, which is truth-apt, but with a diminished assertoric force.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113029

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Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

The second of Kant's three critiques, Critique of Practical Reason forms the center of Kantian philosophy; published in 1788, it is bookended by his Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Judgement. With this work Kant establishes his role as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity; he approaches his proof by presenting positive affirmation of the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. The philosopher offers an argument concerning the summum bonum of life: people should not simply search after happiness, but follow the moral law and seek to become worthy of the happiness that God can bestow. This Critique comprises three sections: the Analytic, the Dialectic, and the Doctrine of Method. The Analytic defines the ultimate moral principle, the categorical imperative, and argues that to obey it is to exercise a freedom. The Dialectic make the assumption that immortality and God exist, arguing that pure practical reason falls into error when it expects perfection in this world; we should anticipate finding perfection in the next world, with God's help. The final section, the Doctrine of Method, offers suggestions in educating people in the use of pure practical reason. A seminal text in the history of moral philosophy, this volume offers the most complete statement of Kant's theory of free will and a full development of his practical metaphysics.

Author : Stephan Körner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300105428

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Practical Reason by Stephan Körner Pdf

This book covers a wide spectrum of connected topics in the field of practical and moral thinking. It contains papers and discussions on the logic of practical reasoning and moral obligation; on the decision-theoretical approach to morality; on the relation between practical and theoretical reason; and on the political aspects of morality. The contributors are, for the most part, well-known philosophers who have not been content with merely restating their positions, but have sued this as a forum for proposing new ideas. The value of the collection lies not only in the originality of the contributions on the various topics mentioned but equally in its demonstration of the interrelations among these topics.

Author : Elijah Millgram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521839432

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Ethics Done Right by Elijah Millgram Pdf

Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046742172

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Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Christine Marion Korsgaard
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X001707379

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The Standpoint of Practical Reason by Christine Marion Korsgaard Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Ethics
ISBN : IND:30000042745525

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Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCSC:32106005396988

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Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599628

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Kant: Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published three years after his Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique provides further elaboration of the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason - prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar of Kant's practical philosophy - presents the first new translation of this work to appear for some years. A substantial and lucid introduction by Andrews Reath places the main themes of the Critique in the context of Kant's moral theory and his critical system.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781625582799

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The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4064066464158

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Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) by Immanuel Kant Pdf

"The Critique of Practical Reason" is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, published in 1788. It follows on from Kant's first critique, "the Critique of Pure Reason" and deals with his moral philosophy. While Kant had already published one significant work in moral philosophy, "The Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" (1785), the "Critique of Practical Reason" was intended to both cover a wider scope and place his ethical views within the larger framework of his system of critical philosophy. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the field of ethics and moral philosophy, beginning with Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Doctrine of Science and becoming, during the 20th century, the principal reference point for deontological moral philosophy.

Author : John Keown,Robert P. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199675500

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Reason, Morality, and Law by John Keown,Robert P. George Pdf

John Finnis is a pre-eminent legal, moral and political philosopher. This volume contains over 25 essays by leading international scholars of philosophy and law who critically engage with issues at the heart of Finnis's work.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191580345

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Between Authority and Interpretation by Joseph Raz Pdf

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence. It asks how the nature of law can be explained, and how the success of a legal theory can be established. The book then addresses central questions on the nature of law, its relation to morality, the nature and justification of authority, and the nature of legal reasoning. It explains how legitimate law, while being a branch of applied morality, is also a relatively autonomous system, which has the potential to bridge moral differences among its subjects. Raz offers responses to some critical reactions to his theory of authority, adumbrating, and modifying the theory to meet some of them. The final part of the book brings together for the first time Raz's work on the nature of interpretation in law and the humanities. It includes a new essay explaining interpretive pluralism and the possibility of interpretive innovation. Taken together, the essays in the volume offer a valuable introduction for students coming for the first time to Raz's work in the philosophy of law, and an original contribution to many of the current debates in practical philosophy.