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Derek Parfit

Reasons and Persons Kindle Edition

by Derek Parfit (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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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.

Length: 560 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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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) --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B006QV7ZMS
Publisher : OUP Oxford (23 January 1986)
Language : English
File size : 3301 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 560 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0198246153

Best Sellers Rank: 142,673 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 10 in Metaphysics Textbooks
- 32 in Ethics Textbooks
- 61 in Metaphysics (Kindle Store)

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John Saunders

A good copy of one of the most distinguished modern philosophers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2019

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The author took the photo on the cover: it's really dreary. The Master's taste didn't extend to photography! Brilliant book.

Stein Smaaland

Thanks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2018

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Promptly delivery of quality book to Norway. Thanks. Stein Smaaland

Frohicky

Brilliant and game changing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2011

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Quite simply an awesome book, rigorous and detailed on every point, and beautiful because of it. A definite challenge that any ethical theorist must defeat.

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Evan

Wonderful book, disastrous edition

Reviewed in Spain on 5 March 2020

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Single star is for the physical quality of the book.

On first reading, the Preface fell out. Opening to any part of the book cracks whatever is passing for glue and pages are the next to go.

Looks and feels like a counterfeit copy. Would love to know what is going on with this imprint, under the venerable OUP umbrella.

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I miss you, Derek

Reviewed in Canada on 1 November 2017

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An inspirational model in the world of Philosophy. One of the greatest masterpiece in the 21st century. Hope you rest in peace for the greatest spirit and contributions that you left behind.

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