Practical Reason and Norms

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? Joseph Raz answers these three questions 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.

• The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)
• Law's Empire
• The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series)
• The Morality of Law: Revised Edition (The Storrs Lectures Series)
• Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy
• Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics
• The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of the Legal System
• Philosophy of Law: Collected Essays Volume IV (Collected Essays of John Finnis)