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On What Matters

Volume One

  • Paperback
  • 592 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.2 x 23 x 4.4 cm

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For students and scholars of moral philosophy

Tackles complex moral theories for better understanding

You will gain insights into important ethical dilemmas

This groundbreaking book challenges your understanding of morality and ethics.

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.

  • Title

    On What Matters

  • Author

    Derek Parfit

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    July 2013

  • Weight

    863g

  • Page Count

    592

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 23 x 4.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199681037

  • ISBN-10

    0199681031

  • Eden Code

    4564292

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