What We Have Reason to Do: Comparing Our Moral and Rational Requirements

I consider Derek Parfit's claim that our partial and impartial reasons are only roughly commensurable. Parfit's philosophy draws heavily on Henry Sidgwick's dualism of practical reason, and I examine how well Parfit's arguments in Reasons and Persons and On What Matters handle th...

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Main Author: Stern, Sara E.
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/420
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1427&context=cmc_theses