On What Matters: Volume Two

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019968104X
• ISBN13: 9780199681044
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"