Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.

• Introduction; 1. When We Are Ourselves; 2. Agency, Reason and the Good; 3. Incommensurability and Agency; 4. Explaining Normativity: On Rationality and the Justification of Reason; 5. Explaining Normativity: Reason and the Will; 6. Notes on Objectivity and Value; 7. Moral Change and Social Relativism; 8. Mixing Values; 9. The Value of Practice; 10. The Truth in Particularism; 11. The Moral Point of View; 12. The Amoralist; 13. The Central Conflict: Morality and Self-Interest; Index.

Joseph Raz is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford; and Visiting Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University, New York. Before becoming a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1972 he was Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at Rockefeller University, the Australian National University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, Yale Law School, and the University of Michigan, and a Visiting Mellon Fellow at Princeton University