Joseph Raz was for half a century the outstanding investigator of legal normativity’s logic and relations to the normativity of morality, aesthetic standards, and epistemic criteria. His influential early monographs Practical Reason and Norms (1976) and The Morality of Freedom (1986), and seven substantial thematic collections of essays, published at intervals between 1979 (The Authority of Law) and 2022 (The Roots of Normativity), most of them widely translated, all exemplify his originality and power in argumentation and teaching and inventively expound an influential liberal philosophy of politics, law and adjudication, and life.
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