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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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: On What Matters
• Author: Derek Parfit
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9780199681037
• ISBN: 0199681031
• ID: 01324058
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 908 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 152 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. July 2013

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