On What Matters: Volume One

di Derek Parfit (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2013

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.

• Autore: Derek Parfit
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 592 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 904 gr.
• EAN: 9780199681037

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