On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

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.

• On What Matters, Vol. 2 (Berkeley Tanner Lectures) (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
• Reasons and Persons
• On What Matters: Volume Three
• The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics)
• Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on Objectivity
• What We Owe to Each Other
• Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
• A Theory of Justice
• The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life