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9780192893994: Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit
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ISBN 10: 0192893998 ISBN 13: 9780192893994
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2021

Sinopsis

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty-one new essays in this book have all been inspired by his work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral philosophy, Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984). Rather than simply commenting on his work, these essays attempt to make further progress with issues, both moral and prudential, that Parfit believed matter to our lives: issues concerned with how we ought to live, and what we have most reason to do. Topics covered in the book include the nature of personal identity, the basis of self-interested concern about the future, the rationality of our attitudes toward time, what it is for a life to go well or badly, how to evaluate moral theories, the nature of reasons for action, the aggregation of value, how benefits and harms should be distributed among people, and what degree of sacrifice morality requires us to make for the sake of others. These include some of the most important questions of normative ethical theory, as well as fundamental questions about the metaphysics of personhood and personal identity, and the ways in which the answers to these questions bear on what it is rational and moral for us to do.

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Acerca del autor

Jeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (OUP, 2002) and Killing in War (OUP, 2009).

Tim Campbell is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies at the University of Stockholm.

James Goodrich is a PhD student in philosophy at Rutgers and Stockholm University, working on moral and political philosophy.

Ketan Ramakrishnan is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a DPhil candidate in philosophy at the University of Oxford.

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0192893998
ISBN 13 
9780192893994
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
492
Editor
McMahan Jeff, Campbell Tim, Goodrich James, Ramakrishnan Ketan
Contacto del fabricante
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