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...

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act...

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He...

"On What Matters: Volume Two" von Derek Parfit ist der zweite Teil seines einflussreichen Werks zur Moralphilosophie. In diesem Band setzt Parfit seine Untersuchung fort, wie moralische Überlegungen objektiv gerechtfertigt werden können....