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On What Matters: v. 1 & 2 (Berkeley Tanner Lectures) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for On What Matters: v. 1 & 2This is a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's 1984 classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and a critical examination of the most prominent systematic moral theories, leading to his own ground-breaking conclusion.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 20 June 2011
- Format: Hardback 1440 pages
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- Categories: Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780199265923 ISBN 10: 0199265925
- Sales rank: 16,167
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Full description for On What Matters: v. 1 & 2
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. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, 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.
