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On what matters. Volume one / Derek Parfit ; edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parfit, Derek, author.
- Series:
- Berkeley Tanner lectures.
- The Berkeley Tanner lectures
- On what matters ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlviii, 540).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book 'Reasons and Persons'. Parfit 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.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Reasons. Normative concepts ; Objective theories ; Subjective theories ; Further arguments ; Rationality ; Morality ; Moral concepts
- Part 2: Principles. Possible consent ; Merely as a means ; Respect and value ; Free will and desert
- Part 3: Theories. Universal laws ; What if everyone did that? ; Impartiality ; Contractualism ; Consequentialism
- Conclusions
- Appendices. A. Stage-given reasons ; B. Rational irrationality and Gauthier's theory ; C. Deontic reasons.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161346-0
- 0-19-180987-X
- OCLC:
- 735625246
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