Joseph Raz, born Joseph Zaltsman, lived from 1939 to 2022 and was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher, an advocate of legal positivism known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. He spent most of his career as a professor of philosophy of law at Balliol College, Oxford, and was latterly a part-time professor of law at Columbia University Law School and a part-time professor at King's College London. He received the Tang Prize in Rule of Law in 2018.
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RoleLegal, moral and political philosopher 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction BirthplaceHaifa, Mandatory Palestine 2 Place of Death Classification
Field of LawLegal Philosophy and Jurisprudence 1 Role
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The Oxford Law Faculty called him "one of the last remaining giants of jurisprudence and philosophy".
2. Joseph Raz (Wikipedia)
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born Joseph Zaltsman; 21 March 1939-2 May 2022
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Joseph Zaltsman was born on 21 March 1939 in Haifa (then in Mandatory Palestine) to Sonya and Shmuel Zaltsman.
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Raz died in his sleep at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, on 2 May 2022, aged 83.
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was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher.
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was an Israeli legal
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What is Joseph Raz's argument for perfectionist liberalism?
Institutions are justified by their contribution to well-being, well-being needs objectively valuable goals pursued through social forms, and those forms require autonomy.
Raz argues that political institutions are justified by their contribution to persons' well-being, and that well-being depends on the successful pursuit of objectively valuable goals. Human goals are conceived through social forms, meaning ways of being and acting developed socially, such as the roles of physician, friend or parent. Because many of those social forms in liberal societies require autonomy, he concludes that liberal societies should support autonomy. He developed the view in his book The Morality of Freedom, which won the 1987 W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize and the 1988 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize.
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