On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

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 â€” Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism â€” 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer OUP Oxford
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-05-26
Format Kindle eBook

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