The Morality of Freedom

by Joseph Raz

Book Overview

Ranging over central issues of morals and politics and the nature of freedom and authority, this study examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition, and relates them to fundamental moral questions such as the relation of values to social forms, the comparability of values, and the significance of personal commitments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198248075
• ISBN13: 9780198248071
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A monument of modern liberal thought

"The Morality of Freedom" is one of the most important half-dozen books of political theory written since Rawls "A Theory of Justice." Raz has an irresistible gift for framing subjects of discussion, for illustrating them with deft but not overelaborate examples, for parsing distinctions with subtlety but not scholasticism (he makes as many distinctions as are useful, but no more). The book is infused with a profound sense of man as a project-driven and social creature, one whose life is enabled by "social forms" that are supported by political structures. Raz's prose is lucid; his theoretical discerning unflaggingly keen. The result is a true monument of modern liberal philosophy.