On What Matters : Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

Parfit, Derek

Oxford University Press（2011/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 592 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199572809
• DDC分類 170

Full Description

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.

Contents

PART ONE: REASONS; PART TWO: PRINCIPLES; PART THREE: THEORIES