Ethics in the Public Domain Essays in the Morality of La and Politics [Paperback]

In the past twenty years Joseph Raz has consolidated his reputation as one of the most acute, inventive, and energetic scholars currently at work in analytic moral and political theory. This new collection of essays forms a representative selection of his most significant contributions to a number of important debates, including the extent of political duty and obligation, and the issue of self-determination. He also examines aspects of the common (and ancient) theme of the relations between law and morality. This volume of essays, available in one volume for the first time, will be essential to legal philosophers and political theorists.

I: The Ethics of Well-Being: Political Implications
Duties of Well-Being
Rights and Individual Well-Being
Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence
Liberalism, Scepticism, and Democracy
National Self-Determination (with A. Margalit)
Freedom of Expression and Personal Identification
Multiculturalism: A Liberal Perspective
II: Between Law and Morality
The Problem about the Nature of Law
The Inner Logic of the Law
Legal Rights
Authority, Law, and Morality
The Relevance of Coherence
On the Autonomy of Legal Reasoning
The Obligation to Obey: Revision and Tradition
Government by Consent
The Politics of the Rule of Law

The arguments throughout both sections are carefully and reasonably developed and invariably shed significant light on the principles addressed. --Choice

...a powerful collection of essays on morality, politics, and law. --The Journal of Philosophy

Joseph Raz is the creator of a distinctive, powerful, and appealing philosophical vision, further defended and elaborated in this fine collection of sixteen essays. --The Philosophical Review