On What Matters : Volume One Paperback / softback
by Derek (All Souls, University of Oxford) Parfit
Part of the The Berkeley Tanner Lectures series
Paperback / softback
Description
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy.
It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy.
In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and rationality, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories -- Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism -- leading to his own ground-breaking synthetic conclusion.
Along the way he discusses a wide range of moral issues, such as the significance of consent, treating people as a means rather than an end, and free will and responsibility.
On What Matters is already the most-discussed work in moral philosophy: its publication is likely to establish it as a modern classic which everyone working on moral philosophy will have to read, and which many others will turn to for stimulation and illumination.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:11/07/2013
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- ISBN:9780199681037
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:11/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199681037
