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Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

By Peter Singer

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In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, Parfit argues that if there are no objective normative truths, nihilism follows, and nothing matters....Show more

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9780199653836

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Oxford University Press

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2017

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Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

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