Joseph Raz addresses one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. His value-based account is brought to bear on many aspects of the lives of rational beings and their agency, such as their ability to maintain relationships, and to live their lives as social beings with a sense of their identity.

Joseph Raz is Research Professor of Law at King's College London. He has held teaching positions at the University of Oxford and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ulrike Heuer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College London. She previously worked at the University of Leeds, the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard College, New York, and Columbia University. Her research is mainly in ethics and philosophy of action.

• Introduction by Ulrike Heuer


• Part I: Normativity in Action


• 1: Intention and Value (2017)


• 2: Intention and Motivation (unpublished)


• 3: Normativity: The Place of Reasoning (2015)


• 4: Can Moral Principles Change? (unpublished)


• Part II: Reasons and Values


• 5: Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons (2016)


• 6: The Guise of the Bad (2016)


• 7: Normative Powers (unpublished)


• 8: Is There a Reason to Keep a Promise? (2014)


• Part III: The Normative in Our Lives


• 9: The Role of Well-Being (2004)


• 10: Attachments and Associated Reasons (unpublished)


• 11: Identity and Social Bonds (unpublished)


• 12: Normativity and the Other (unpublished)


• References


• Index