On What Matters: Volume Two

ISBN-13: 9780199572816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 848 str.

Derek Parfit

Opis

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.

Recenzje

It is finally here. . . there is no doubt that On What Matters is an epochal work . . . a remarkable achievement, giving us a truly comprehensive picture of the moral outlook . . . of one of the greatest moral thinkers of our time. . . . Parfit's intellectual personality radiates throughout On What Matters, which as a whole presents a gripping and illuminating picture of a single, comprehensive view of the projects of both normative and metaethical inquiry. Mark Schroeder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

From the contents:

Part four: commentaries;
susan wolf: hiking the range;
allen wood: humanity as an end in itself;
barbara herman: a mismatch of methods;
t. m. scanlon: how i am not a kantian;
part five: 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 six: normativity;
analytical naturalism and subjectivism;
non-analytical naturalism;
the triviality objection;
naturalism and nihilism;
non-cognitivism and quasi-realism;
normativity;
normative truths;
metaphysics;
epistemology;
rationalism;
agreement;
nietzsche;
what matters most;
appendices;
why anything? why this?;
the fair warning view;
some of kant's arguments for his formula of universal law;
kant's claims about the good;
autonomy and categorical imperatives;
kant's motivational argument;
on what there is;
Notes to Volume Two;
References;
Bibliography;
Index

O autorze

Derek Parfit is one of the leading philosophers of our time. He is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984), one of the most influential books in philosophy of the last several decades.