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Product Description: 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. Parfit now 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...read more
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9780199265923 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy.

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Product Description: 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. Parfit now 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...read more
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9780199572809 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy.
9780199572816 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy.

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By Benjamin R. Barber (contributor), T. J. Clark (contributor), Lorraine Daston (contributor), Michael Fried (contributor), Frank Kermode (contributor), Martha C. Nussbaum, Derek Parfit (contributor), Grethe B. Peterson (editor), Salman Rushdie (editor), Laurence H. Tribe (contributor) and Garry Wills (contributor)
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9780874807950 | Univ of Utah Pr, June 24, 2004, cover price $35.00

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9788460078159 | Complutense S A Editorial, March 3, 2003, cover price $6.95

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Product Description: Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198246152 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 28, 1984, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: "Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning.

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9780198249085 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 20, 1986), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature.

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