On What Matters

By Derek Parfit

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. Parfit now 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. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199265925
• ISBN13: 9780199265923
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1440 Pages
• Weight: 5.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"