On What Matters: v. 1 & 2
Two-volume set (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
Derek Parfit
ISBN: | 9780199265923 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Published: | 26 May, 2011 |
Format: | Multi-Copy Pack |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
On What Matters: v. 1 & 2
Two-volume set (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
Derek Parfit
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.
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