On What Matters: Volume One

by Derek Parfit

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199572801
• ISBN13: 9780199572809
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"