Reasons and Persons

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780198249085
  • Weight: 581g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jan 1986
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.