On what matters /
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 exam...
| Основен автор: | Parfit, Derek. |
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| Други автори: | Scheffler, Samuel, 1951- (Author of introduction, etc.) |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Berkeley Tanner lectures.
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Съдържание:
- V. 1. Part 1: Reasons. Normative concepts ; Objective theories ; Subjective theories ; Further arguments ; Rationality ; Morality ; Moral concepts
- Part 2: Principles. Possible consent ; Merely as a means ; Respect and value ; Free will and desert
- Part 3: Theories. Universal laws ; What if everyone did that? ; Impartiality ; Contractualism ; Consequentialism
- Conclusions
- Appendices. A. Stage-given reasons ; B. Rational irrationality and Gauthier's theory ; C. Deontic reasons
- v. 2. Part 4: Commentaries. Hiking the range / Susan Wolf ; Humanity as an end in itself / Allen Wood ; A mismatch of methods / Barbara Herman ; How I an not a Kantian / T. M. Scanlon
- Part 5: Responses. On hiking the range ; On humanity as an end in itself ; On a mismatch of methods ; How the numbers count ; Scanlonian contractualism ; The triple theory
- Part 6: Normativity. Analytical naturalism and subjectivism ; Non-analytical naturalism ; The triviality objection ; Naturalism and