书名：Reasons and Persons 理由与人类
作者：Derek Parfit
出版社名称：Oxford University Press, USA
出版时间：1986
语种：英语
ISBN：9780198249085
商品尺寸：2.4 x 19.6 x 12.8 cm
包装：平装

Review

In Reasons and Persons, [Parfit's] clipped prose, with its repetitive sentences, poetic cadence and sly humour becomes the vehicle for a depth and range of insight rarely matched in recent philosophy. ― Kieran Setiya, Times Literary Supplement

Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning. ― P.F. Strawson, The New York Review of Books

From the Back Cover

Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity.

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.

德里克·帕菲特（DerekParfit）生于1942年12月11日。牛津大学万灵学院高级研究员，纽约大学、哈佛大学、罗格斯大学客座教授，英国国家学术院、美国人文与科学院成员。他的另一部著作《理与人》（Reasons and Persons）是近几十年最有影响力的哲