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“... why not suppress what we don’t like? On this question the Oxford moral and legal philosopher Joseph Raz is a distinguished defender of a view that, in its logical structure and basic values, adheres to the tradition of John Stuart Mill. Raz believes that liberal institutions are justified because, for those ...”

“... seem more than slim. In British society at least, even ideologues of the right like Sir Keith Joseph, who argue vehemently for unfettered capitalist enterprise, give predominantly utilitarian (and almost wholly consequentialist) grounds for doing so. It takes an American today to think of unlimited appropriation as a human right. The works considered here ...”

“... it, the elementary proposition that rules acquire meaning only by being applied to facts. Joseph Raz considers how it is the interpretation of a work of literary or musical art which invests it with meaning and (dubiously) distinguishes that exercise from the way in which historiography interprets history. The essay has virtually nothing to say ...”

“... with. The underlying value is not just negative liberty, but autonomy – which Gray (following Joseph Raz) defines as the condition in which a person is (at least in part) the author of her own life. Autonomy in this sense may require not just the absence of coercion, but social conditions that support and nurture the capacities for choice that ...”

“... but Dworkin went on to develop an independent theory (most fully expounded in Law’s Empire), and Joseph Raz became the leading representative of the positivist position. There is no sign that the matter is about to be settled. It poses deep questions about the possibility of a purely descriptive account of an essentially evaluative activity, and more ...”

“... what Waldron calls a ‘laundry list of principles’. Fuller’s list is the most famous. Joseph Raz, John Finnis and Tom Bingham follow Fuller in proposing eight principles. Others have been more parsimonious: A.V. Dicey had three principles; John Rawls had four. Waldron pokes fun at this approach – ‘Robert Summers holds the record, I ...”