Born in Mandate Palestine in 1939, Joseph Raz graduated in 1963 from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel with a Magister Juris (Master of Jurisprudence), summa cum laude. Later, with funds provided by the Hebrew University, Raz pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at Oxford University under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart. This was by no means coincidental; Raz had met Hart earlier at a conference in Israel. Hart says that at this meeting, Raz pointed out a flaw in his reasoning that had previously eluded him. Hart encouraged him to go to Oxford for further study.
Raz studied at Balliol College, Oxford and was awarded the DPhil in 1967. He then returned to Israel to teach at the Hebrew University as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy. In 1971, he was tenured and promoted to Senior Lecturer. In 1972, he returned to Balliol as a Fellow and Tutor in Law, becoming a Professor of Philosophy of Law, Oxford University, from 1985 to 2006, and then a Research Professor from 2006 to 2009. Since 2002 he has also been a Professor in the Law School at Columbia University, New York. He has held visiting appointments at several universities, and has also served on a number of editorial boards for the publication of journals and books.
Raz is acknowledged by his contemporaries as being one of the most important living legal philosophers. He has authored and edited nine books to date, namely The Concept of a Legal System (1970), Practical Reason and Norms (1975), The Authority of Law (1979), The Morality of Freedom (1986), Authority (1990), Ethics in the Public Domain (1994), Engaging Reason (1999), Value, Respect and Attachment (2001), and The Practice of Value (2003).
His first book, The Concept of a Legal System, was based on his doctoral thesis. A later book, The Morality of Freedom won two prizes: the 1987 W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize from the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, awarded to the best book in political science each calendar year; and the 1988 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize from the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, New York, awarded annually for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory that had been published two years earlier.
The key ideas engaged in Raz's books are norms, authority, and the theory of legal positivism. His theory of norms refers roughly to rules that serve as a guide for human behaviour. It also includes the system(s) that those norms exist in, such as a legal system. The second aspect refers to questions on the authority that law has over people under a particular legal system, and the authority that society in general should acknowledge as due to the law. Such questions are important, for the law is in every corner of society, affecting the daily lives of individuals whether they like it or not. As Raz uses the term, 'legal positivism' refers to the view that there is no necessary conceptual relationship between law and morality; a law does not cease to be a law by being unjust or immoral. The term is sometimes used to describe the view that laws either cannot or even should not be grounded in morality; Raz does not defend that view.
His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in such cases as Imperial Tobacco v. British Columbia, R. v. Demers, and Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer).
In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Catholic University of Brussels, 1993, and by King's College London, 2009. In 2005 he received the International Prize for Legal Research 'Hector Fix-Zamudio' from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and in 2009 a Vice-Presidency Award from the Law Society of University College Dublin.
【按语:《自由的道德(The morality of Freedom,1986)》是一部很精致的政治哲学作品,Raz提出一种至善论的、基于自主的(autonomy-based)的政治自由理论,其“理由(reason)”和“自主(autonomy)”概念糅合了至善论和道义论两种伦理路径。Raz展现了对现代社会和道德理论...
评分这本书作为拉兹在政治哲学方面的代表作,在国外享有很高的声誉。翻译莫名其妙,如果你没有看到原文,看他们的翻译,很多时候都会一头雾水。 举几个十分明显的错误: 1)书名翻译有问题。“自由的道德”——中文初听起来,好像是说道德是自由的?free morality? 但是,事实上,...
评分当代几种不同版本的自由主义理论均不约而同地申说一种中立性(Neutrality)理想,以作为对国家权力的限制。具体而言,它指的是政制在面对多元社会中诸善观念时所应该遵守的原则。这一概念最易令人混淆之处是,就词义而言,实际上存在着两种意义上的中立:首先是同等对待的中立...
评分这本书作为拉兹在政治哲学方面的代表作,在国外享有很高的声誉。翻译莫名其妙,如果你没有看到原文,看他们的翻译,很多时候都会一头雾水。 举几个十分明显的错误: 1)书名翻译有问题。“自由的道德”——中文初听起来,好像是说道德是自由的?free morality? 但是,事实上,...
评分【按语:《自由的道德(The morality of Freedom,1986)》是一部很精致的政治哲学作品,Raz提出一种至善论的、基于自主的(autonomy-based)的政治自由理论,其“理由(reason)”和“自主(autonomy)”概念糅合了至善论和道义论两种伦理路径。Raz展现了对现代社会和道德理论...
这本书《The Morality of Freedom》无疑是一部引人深思的作品。作者以其精妙的笔触,描绘了自由与道德之间错综复杂的关系。他并不止步于理论的探讨,更将其延伸到对人类生活和社会结构的深层审视。我特别赞赏作者在书中对于“能力”与“责任”之间关系的解析。他认为,我们对自己的行为负责,不仅仅是因为我们能够自由选择,更是因为我们拥有了做出选择的能力。这种对“能力”的关注,为理解道德的运作提供了一个新的视角,也让我对自我提升和个人发展有了更深刻的认识。
评分一直以来,我都对“自由”这个词的内涵感到好奇,《The Morality of Freedom》这本书为我打开了一个新的理解维度。作者并没有局限于对抽象概念的讨论,而是将其与现实世界的道德困境紧密结合。他探讨了自由在法律、政治和社会公正等多个领域中的体现,以及当我们缺乏自由时,道德评判又该如何进行。这本书的理论深度与现实关照并存,让我觉得它不仅是一本哲学著作,更是一本能够指导我们如何理解和实践道德的书籍。
评分坦白说,《The Morality of Freedom》并非易读之作,但其价值在于它迫使你去思考那些最根本的问题。作者对于“道德”与“自由”之间相互依存关系的分析,让我对很多社会现象和个人行为有了全新的认识。他并没有提供简单的答案,而是提出了一系列值得深入探讨的论点。比如,在什么情况下,我们可以认为一个人是“真正”自由的?而当一个人失去了自由,我们又该如何评判他的行为?这些问题在书中得到了细致的探讨,让我对人类行为的复杂性有了更深的敬畏。
评分最近入手了《The Morality of Freedom》,刚翻了几页就被它深深吸引住了。这本书并非那种容易一口气读完的“消遣读物”,它的文字沉甸甸的,每一个概念都经过了作者精心打磨,仿佛是在阅读一篇篇思想的精雕细琢。作者以一种极其严谨的学术态度,却又没有失掉对哲学思辨的热情,探讨了自由意志的本质及其在道德责任中的核心地位。读这本书的过程,更像是在参与一场深入的哲学对话,作者抛出的每一个问题都像一块投入平静湖面的石头,激起一圈圈思想的涟漪,让我不禁停下来,反复咀嚼,思考其背后的逻辑和可能存在的反驳。
评分《The Morality of Freedom》这本书带来的思考是持续的。即使在合上书本之后,作者提出的观点依然在我脑海中回响。我特别被作者关于“选择”的论述所打动。他不仅仅谈论了选择的可能性,更深入探讨了选择的质量,以及这些选择如何塑造我们的道德人格。这种对个体能动性和责任的强调,在当今社会显得尤为重要。这本书让我意识到,我们并非只是被动接受命运安排的齿轮,而是真正拥有塑造自己和世界的可能性,而这份可能性,就根植于我们被赋予的自由。
评分《The Morality of Freedom》这本书的文字风格独树一帜,既有严谨的学术逻辑,又不失思想的张力。我喜欢作者在处理复杂议题时所展现出的耐心和清晰。他一层层地构建他的论证,引用了许多不同的哲学视角,但始终保持着自己的核心论点——自由是道德的基础。在阅读的过程中,我常常会停下来,思考作者提出的一个又一个论证,并尝试用自己的话语去复述和理解。这种主动的学习过程,让我觉得这本书带来的不仅仅是知识,更是一种思维训练。
评分《The Morality of Freedom》这本书,就如其名,直击了道德的核心——自由。我一直在思考,我们所说的“道德”是否是建立在一种普遍的、不受强制的自由基础之上的?这本书的作者似乎给了我一个非常有力的论据。他并不回避那些关于决定论和自由意志的古老争论,而是以一种现代的、清晰的方式将其梳理清楚,并最终将自由置于道德判断的基石之上。这本书让我对“我”这个主体的存在,以及“我”所做选择的意义有了更深刻的理解,感觉像是完成了一次关于自我认知的哲学探险。
评分《The Morality of Freedom》这本书的深度和广度都令人印象深刻。我尤其欣赏作者在论证过程中所展现出的细致入微。他并没有简单地宣称自由意志的存在,而是从多个角度,运用逻辑推理、概念分析,甚至对一些经典哲学思想进行了深入的辨析和重构。这种对复杂议题的处理方式,使得本书的内容不仅仅是对自由意志的陈述,更是一次对我们理解道德、责任乃至人类自身存在方式的深刻反思。每一次阅读,都感觉像是打开了一个新的思维窗口,让我能够从更广阔的视角去审视那些我们习以为常的观念。
评分阅读《The Morality of Freedom》对我来说是一次极具挑战但又充满回报的体验。作者对于“自由”与“责任”之间关系的阐释,简直是一场精妙的思维舞蹈。他层层剥茧,试图揭示我们为何能够并且应该为自己的行为负责,而这一切又与我们是否拥有真正的自由选择权息息相关。书中的论证过程逻辑严密,但也正是这份严谨,有时会让人觉得需要反复琢磨,甚至停下来回顾前面的章节。但这恰恰是本书的魅力所在——它鼓励读者主动思考,而不是被动接受。
评分《The Morality of Freedom》这本书,让我对“责任”的理解发生了根本性的转变。在此之前,我可能更多地将责任视为一种义务或负担,但这本书让我明白,责任的根源在于我们拥有自由选择的能力。作者对“自由”的定义和辩护,直接影响了我们如何看待他人的行为,以及如何进行道德判断。这本书的叙事方式很吸引人,作者能够用相对清晰的语言,阐述那些极其抽象和复杂的哲学观点,让像我这样的非专业读者也能从中获得启发。
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