On what matters

Derek Parfit First published 2009

About this book

This is the follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book 'Reasons and Persons'. Parfit 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.

Subjects

  • ethics
  • ethics & moral philosophy
  • philosophy
  • social