Reasons and persons

Author(s)

• Parfit, Derek

Bibliographic Information

Reasons and persons

by Derek Parfit

Clarendon Press, 1986

[Reprint ed. with corrections]

Note

Description by t.p. verso and added part of introd.

Bibliography: p. [533]-540

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

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Details

• NCID: BA23640581
• ISBN:
  • 0198246153
• LCCN: 83015139
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 543 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BJ1012
  • DC19 : 170
  • NDC8 : 150
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethics
  • LCSH : Rationalism
  • LCSH : Self