Human and nature

Author: Derek Parfit Wang Xinsheng
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Twentieth Century Western Philosophy Translation Series. (BR) Parfit is a renowned contemporary philosopher and ethicist. His masterpiece, Reason and Persons, is hailed as one of the greatest empirical works of moral philosophy since G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica was published a century ago. This book revolves around the themes of "Reason" and "Persons," providing an in-depth and meticulous analysis of a series of representative views and theories held throughout history in these two aspects. It reveals that people's understanding of their own nature and the reasons for their actions is often based on many illusions. With numerous examples and rigorous reasoning, the author not only compares and exposes the underlying foundations of human actions but also challenges traditional moral beliefs and concepts from the perspectives of reason, morality, and human nature. Since its publication, the book has had a widely recognized revolutionary impact on the development of Western ethics, holding an irreplaceable position in both meta-ethics and applied ethics. This book is also one of the famous "Harvard Textbooks."