Rights, Culture and the Law: Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz
Lukas H. Meyer, Stanley L. Paulson, and Thomas W. Pogge
Abstract
This book brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism. It raises questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its application to claims of cultural and political autonomy, and examines his theory of multicultural society. It investigates the applicability of the notion of harm in the intergenerational context as well as the fundamental theoretical tenets of ... More
This book brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism. It raises questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its application to claims of cultural and political autonomy, and examines his theory of multicultural society. It investigates the applicability of the notion of harm in the intergenerational context as well as the fundamental theoretical tenets of Raz's work. The book also looks at Raz's account of value pluralism and incommensurability in light of what are considered goods whose equal distribution must be valued for its own sake. It discusses traditional issues of jurisprudence and legal philosophy, with special attention to Raz's contribution, along with aspects of Raz's theory of practical reason and his interpretation of authority. The book concludes with a chapter by Joseph Raz in which he responds to arguments in the foregoing essays.
Keywords:
Joseph Raz,
legal positivism,
practical reason,
authority,
equality,
incommensurability,
harm,
group rights,
multiculturalism,
political autonomy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199248254 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248254.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lukas H. Meyer, editor
University of Bremen
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Stanley L. Paulson, editor
Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis
Thomas W. Pogge, editor
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
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