Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Parfit, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019824908X ISBN 13: 9780198249085

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

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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. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.

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Derek Parfit is a research fellow at All Souls College.

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Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019824908X
• ISBN 13: 9780198249085
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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