Download or read book Practical Reason and Norms written by Joseph Raz and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? Joseph Raz answers these three questions by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, andshowing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity.