On What Matters (2 Volume Set)

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. 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.

• On What Matters: Volume Three
• Reasons and Persons
• Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on Objectivity
• What We Owe to Each Other
• The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics)
• Being Realistic about Reasons
• The View From Nowhere
• A Theory of Justice: Original Edition (Oxford Paperbacks 301 301)
• A Theory of Justice
• Reading Parfit