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From Normativity to Responsibility (Paperback)
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From Normativity to Responsibility (Paperback)
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What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we
responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these
questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical
issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature
of normativity-namely, the fact that we believe and feel we should
behave in certain ways, the reasoning behind certain beliefs and
emotions, and various basic features of making decisions about what
to do. He goes on to consider when we are responsible for our
actions and omissions, and offers a novel account of
responsibility. We can think of responsibility for unjustified
actions or attitudes as a precondition of the blameworthiness of a
person for an attitude or an action, or perhaps for a whole set of
actions, intentions, or beliefs. Responsibility for justified
actions or attitudes may be a precondition of praiseworthiness.
Either way responsibility may point to further consequences of
being justified or unjustified, rational or not. But crucially,
responsibility attaches to people in a more holistic way. Some
people are responsible for their actions, while others are not. In
this way, Raz argues that the end is in the beginning, in
understanding how people are subject to normativity, namely how it
is that there are reasons addressed to them, and what is the
meaning of that for our being in the world.
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