On What Matters: Volume One (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
by:
Derek Parfit (author)
Derek Parfit,Hardcover,Series: Berkeley Tanner Lectures Series, English-language edition,Pub by Oxford University Press
Derek Parfit,Hardcover,Series: Berkeley Tanner Lectures Series, English-language edition,Pub by Oxford University Press
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780199572809 (0199572801)
Publish date: May 26th 2011
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
As an amateur philosopher I loved the first half of this book. It convinced me that ethics could be approached with the same rigor as analytic philosophy. Parfit's style of building a case slowly and methodically, then suddenly ending the chapter with simple statement of thesis, took me awhile to ...