Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks) - Brossura

Parfit, Derek

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ISBN 10: 019824908X ISBN 13: 9780198249085

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

Riassunto

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 moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

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Recensione:

In Reasons and Persons, [Parfit's] clipped prose, with its repetitive sentences, poetic cadence and sly humour becomes the vehicle for a depth and range of insight rarely matched in recent philosophy. (Kieran Setiya, Times Literary Supplement)

Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning. (P.F. Strawson, The New York Review of Books)

L'autore:

Derek Parfit is a research fellow at All Souls College.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 019824908X
• ISBN 13: 9780198249085
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560