On what matters
By: Derek Parfit ; edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler
Contributors: Scheffler, Samuel, 1951-
Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures; Berkeley Tanner lectures
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780191576713; 9780199265923; 9780199572816
Subjects: Ethics; PHILOSOPHY; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.