On What Matters

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume of a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of 20th-century philosophy. Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons and a critical examination of the most prominent systematic moral theories, leading to his own ground-breaking conclusion. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* Preface


* Summary


* PART ONE: REASONS


* NORMATIVE CONCEPTS


* OBJECTIVE THEORIES


* SUBJECTIVE THEORIES


* FURTHER ARGUMENTS


* RATIONALITY


* MORALITY


* MORAL CONCEPTS


* PART TWO: PRINCIPLES


* POSSIBLE CONSENT


* MERELY AS A MEANS


* RESPECT AND VALUE


* FREE WILL AND DESERT


* PART THREE: THEORIES


* UNIVERSAL LAWS


* WHAT IF EVERYONE DID THAT?


* IMPARTIALITY


* CONTRACTUALISM


* CONSEQUENTIALISM


* CONCLUSIONS


* Appendices


* Notes to Volume One


* References


* Bibliography


* Index 

Kritik

Review from previous edition an epochal work ... Parfit's intellectual personality radiates throughout On What Matters, which as a whole presents a gripping and illuminating picture of a single, comprehensive view of the projects of both normative and metaethical inquiry. Mark Schroeder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 

Autoreninfo

Derek Parfit is one of the leading philosophers of our time. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984), one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several decades.