On What Matters Parfit Derek
On What Matters Parfit Derek Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their…
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On What Matters Parfit Derek
Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality.
This third theory claims that, if we use the word 'reality' in an ontologically weighty sense, irreducibly normative truths have no mysterious or incredible ontological implications. Much of the book discusses three of the main kinds of meta-ethical theory: Normative Naturalism, Quasi-Realist Expressivism, and Non-Metaphysical Non-Naturalism, which Derek Parfit now calls Non-Realist Cognitivism. If instead we use 'reality' in a wide sense,