Joseph Raz - Wikipedia Joseph Raz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Joseph Raz Raz, February 2009 Born (1939-03-21) 21 March 1939 (age 81) Mandate Palestine Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem Balliol College, Oxford Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Legal positivism Perfectionist liberalism Main interests Legal and political philosophy Notable ideas Perfectionist liberalism Influences H. L. A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, Peter Hacker Influenced John Gardner, Leslie Green, Matthew Kramer, Timothy Endicott, Scott J. Shapiro Part of the Politics series on Communitarianism Central concepts Civil society Political particularism Positive rights Social capital Value pluralism Important thinkers Benjamin Barber Gad Barzilai Robert N. Bellah Phillip Blond Amitai Etzioni William Galston Mark Kuczewski Alasdair MacIntyre Stephen Marglin José Pérez Adán Costanzo Preve Robert D. Putnam Joseph Raz Jean-Jacques Rousseau Michael J. Sandel Charles Taylor Michael Walzer Related topics Christian democracy Radical centrism Republicanism Social democracy Politics portal v t e Joseph Raz (/rɑːz/; Hebrew: יוסף רז‎; born 21 March 1939) is an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism and is well known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at the University of Oxford associated with Balliol College, and is now a part-time professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London.[1] He received the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2018. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Philosophical work 3 Honors and awards 4 Books 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links Life and career[edit] Born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, Joseph Raz graduated in 1963 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Magister Juris (summa cum laude). Later, with funds provided by the Hebrew University, Raz pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart. Raz had met Hart earlier at a conference in Israel, impressing him by pointing 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 and completed his 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. Raz, now retired from Oxford, is currently also a research professor of law at King's College London.[1] Philosophical work[edit] A pupil of H. L. A. Hart, Raz has been important in continuing the development of legal positivism both before and since Hart's death. Raz was also co-editor of a second edition of Hart's The Concept of Law with a postscript including Hart's responses to other philosophers' criticisms of his work. Raz's 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 book develops a conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz has argued for a distinctive understanding of legal commands as exclusionary reasons for action and for the "service conception" of authority, according to which those subject to an authority "can benefit by its decisions only if they can establish their existence and content in ways which do not depend on raising the very same issues which the authority is there to settle."[2] This, in turn, supports Raz's argument for legal positivism, in particular "the sources thesis", "the idea that an adequate test for the existence and content of law must be based only on social facts, and not on moral arguments."[2] Raz is acknowledged by his contemporaries as being one of the most important living legal philosophers. He has authored and edited eleven 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), The Practice of Value (2003), Between Authority and Interpretation (2009), and From Normativity to Responsibility (2011). His most recent work deals less with legal theory and more with political philosophy and practical reasoning. In moral theory, Raz defends value pluralism and the idea that various values are incommensurable. Raz's work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in such cases as Imperial Tobacco v. British Columbia and Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer). Several of Raz's students have become important legal and moral philosophers, including two current Professors in Jurisprudence at Oxford, Leslie Green and Timothy Endicott, and the former professor of Jurisprudence John Gardner. Honors and awards[edit] Raz was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987[3] and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992.[4] He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Catholic University of Brussels, 1993, by King's College London, 2009, and by Hebrew University, 2014. 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. In 2018 he received the prestigious Tang Prize in Rule of Law from Taiwan.[5] In 2000–2001, he gave the Tanner Lectures on Human Values on "The Practice of Value" at the University of California Berkeley.[6] Books[edit] The Concept of a Legal System (1970; 2nd ed., 1980) Practical Reason and Norms (1975; 2nd ed., 1990) The Authority of Law (1979; 2nd ed., 2009) The Morality of Freedom (1986) Ethics in the Public Domain (1994; rev. pbk. ed., 1995) Engaging Reason (1999) Value, Respect and Attachment (2001) The Practice of Value (2003) Between Authority and Interpretation (2009) From Normativity to Responsibility (2011) See also[edit] Philosophy of law Notes[edit] ^ a b "josephnraz". Retrieved 3 February 2017. ^ a b Green, Leslie (1 January 2012). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 3 February 2017 – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ^ "Professor Joseph Raz FBA", The British Academy, retrieved 3 September 2020 ^ "cv - josephnraz". Retrieved 3 February 2017. ^ "Tang Prize in Rule of Law, 2018", Tang-prize.org, retrieved 3 September 2020 ^ "Past Lectures". The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014. References[edit] "Symposium: The Works of Joseph Raz". Southern California Law Review. 62 (3): 731–1235. 1988–89. Including a response by Raz. Lukas H. Meyer et al. (eds.), Rights, Culture and the Law: Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. R. Jay Wallace et al. (eds.), Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joseph Raz. 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