The Practice of Value

Joseph Raz

A. Social Dependence without Relativism

1. . The Landscape

2. . The thesis in brief

a) . The thesis

b) . Dependence without reduction

c) . Dependence without conventionalism

3. . Justifying considerations

a) . The dependence of values on valuers

b) . Temporal elements in our value concepts

4. . Limits of the special thesis

B. . The Implications of value pluralism

1. . Specific and general values

2. . Diversity without relativism: the role of genre

C. . Change and Understanding

1. . Understanding and value

2. . Interpretation

3. . Interpretation and change