Joseph Raz Quotes on Knowledge
Joseph Raz (1939–2022), the Israeli-British legal and political philosopher whose The Authority of Law (1979), The Morality of Freedom (1986), and the late collection Engaging Reason (1999) shaped late-twentieth-century Anglophone analytic jurisprudence and practical philosophy, defended an exclusive legal positivism according to which the existence and content of the law are matters of social fact alone — and a parallel "service conception" of practical authority on which an authority is justified just when its directives enable those subject to it to comply better with the reasons that already apply to them than they would by acting on their own unaided judgment. The framework supplies Raz's broader account of practical reason and the place of authority within it.
Quotes
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“Song for St. Cecilia 's Day (1692), st. 3”
Music , the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. -
“Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692), st. 4”
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high , And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. -
“Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692)”
When time itself shall be no more, And all things in confusion hurl'd, Music shall then exert it's power, And sound survive the ruins of the world : Then saints and angels shall agree In one eternal jubilee: All Heaven shall echo with their hymns divine, And God himself with pleasure see The whole creation in a chorus join. -
“Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692)”
Consecrate the place and day To music and Cecilia. Let no rough winds approach, nor dare Invade the hallow'd bounds, Nor rudely shake the tuneful air, Nor spoil the fleeting sounds. Nor mournful sigh nor groan be heard, But gladness dwell on every tongue; Whilst all, with voice and strings prepar'd, Keep up the loud harmonious song, And imitate the blest above, In joy, and harmony, and love. -
“A Poem to His Majesty (1695), l. 21”
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.