On What Matters: Two-volume set 9780199572809, 9780198778608, 0198778600, 9780199265923, 0199265925, 0199572801, 9780199572816, 019957281X
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book R
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English Pages v. ; 24 cm Year 2011
Table of contents :
V. 1. Part 1: Reasons. Normative concepts
Objective theories
Subjective theories
Further arguments
Rationality
Morality
Moral concepts --
Part 2: Principles. Possible consent
Merely as a means
Respect and value
Free will and desert --
Part 3: Theories. Universal laws
What if everyone did that?
Impartiality
Contractualism
Consequentialism --
Conclusions --
Appendices. A. Stage-given reasons
B. Rational irrationality and Gauthier's theory
C. Deontic reasons --
v. 2. Part 4: Commentaries. Hiking the range / Susan Wolf
Humanity as an end in itself / Allen Wood
A mismatch of methods / Barbara Herman
How I an not a Kantian / T. M. Scanlon --
Part 5: Responses. On hiking the range
On humanity as an end in itself
On a mismatch of methods
How the numbers count
Scanlonian contractualism
The triple theory --
Part 6: Normativity. Analytical naturalism and subjectivism
Non-analytical naturalism
The triviality objection
Naturalism and nihilism
Non-cognitivism and quasi-realism
Normativity and truth
Normative truths
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Rationalism
Agreement
Nietzsche
What matters most --
Appendices. D. Why anything? Why this?
E. The fair warning view
F. Some of Kant's arguments for his formula of universal law
G. Kant's claim about the good
H. Autonomy and categorical imperatives
I. Kant's motivational argument
J. On what there is.
V. 1. Part 1: Reasons. Normative concepts
Objective theories
Subjective theories
Further arguments
Rationality
Morality
Moral concepts --
Part 2: Principles. Possible consent
Merely as a means
Respect and value
Free will and desert --
Part 3: Theories. Universal laws
What if everyone did that?
Impartiality
Contractualism
Consequentialism --
Conclusions --
Appendices. A. Stage-given reasons
B. Rational irrationality and Gauthier's theory
C. Deontic reasons --
v. 2. Part 4: Commentaries. Hiking the range / Susan Wolf
Humanity as an end in itself / Allen Wood
A mismatch of methods / Barbara Herman
How I an not a Kantian / T. M. Scanlon --
Part 5: Responses. On hiking the range
On humanity as an end in itself
On a mismatch of methods
How the numbers count
Scanlonian contractualism
The triple theory --
Part 6: Normativity. Analytical naturalism and subjectivism
Non-analytical naturalism
The triviality objection
Naturalism and nihilism
Non-cognitivism and quasi-realism
Normativity and truth
Normative truths
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Rationalism
Agreement
Nietzsche
What matters most --
Appendices. D. Why anything? Why this?
E. The fair warning view
F. Some of Kant's arguments for his formula of universal law
G. Kant's claim about the good
H. Autonomy and categorical imperatives
I. Kant's motivational argument
J. On what there is.
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