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The Morality of Freedom

Joseph Raz

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publish Date: Oct 20th, 1988
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.41in - 5.39in - 1.03in - 1.24lb
  • EAN: 9780198248071
  • Categories: • Political

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John Tasioulas
@JTasioulas
2 years

Director @EthicsInAI. Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford. Senior Research Fellow @BalliolOxford.

Opening boxes and re-encountering old copies of books like old friends. Like this copy of Raz’s The Morality of Freedom which I optimistically tried to read on the flight from Melbourne to London back when I was starting as a grad student in 1989. https://t.co/D48vSkGYGN

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Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen
@alixabeth
3 years

Maxwell Professor of US Citizenship @ Boston U/Political Theory Editor @ AJPS/I write about immigration, citizenship and the politics of time.

Oof. Raz. What a loss. The Morality of Freedom was one of the first works of political philosophy I read in college after I knew that I loved the field. I still go back to that book regularly. He has left quite a mark.

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Martin O'Neill
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dad of four; professor of political philosophy @UniOfYork; exec @britishphiloso1; board @DemocracyCollab; the future is unwritten: there are always alternatives

Jeremy Waldron on the life and philosophical contribution of Joseph Raz, in the New Statesman. (Interesting to read that Waldron views *The Morality of Freedom* as Raz’s most important book.) https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/05/philosophys-gentle-giant

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Praise for this book

"As significant a new statement of liberal principles as anything since Mill's On Liberty."--Times Literary Supplement

"It is not possible here to do justice to the richness of Raz's discussion. ... Anyone who reads The Morality of Freedom with care will profit. It is the deeply original and rigorous product of a gifted philosopher working at the height of his powers." Loren Lomasky But Is It Liberalism?

"Raz's arguments are a valuable guide to the complexities of contemporary social and political life....[An] admirable account of liberalism."--The New Republic

"Stimulating, challenging, and insightful throughout. His basic theses are intriguing and important. His argumentation illuminates and ties together a wide range of issues in moral and political theory."--The Philosophical Review

"Whether you tackle the whole or merely some of its parts, you will be in the company of one of the most acute, inventive, energetic, and unpredictable minds currently at work in analytic moral and political theory....The most ambitious and effective philosophical defense of political liberalism since Rawls, if not Mill."--Canadian Philosophical Review

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: John Tasioulas
John Tasioulas
@JTasioulas
2 years

Director @EthicsInAI. Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford. Senior Research Fellow @BalliolOxford.

Opening boxes and re-encountering old copies of books like old friends. Like this copy of Raz’s The Morality of Freedom which I optimistically tried to read on the flight from Melbourne to London back when I was starting as a grad student in 1989. https://t.co/D48vSkGYGN

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Mentioner image for: Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen
Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen
@alixabeth
3 years

Maxwell Professor of US Citizenship @ Boston U/Political Theory Editor @ AJPS/I write about immigration, citizenship and the politics of time.

Oof. Raz. What a loss. The Morality of Freedom was one of the first works of political philosophy I read in college after I knew that I loved the field. I still go back to that book regularly. He has left quite a mark.

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