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Description
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining
and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to
rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous
philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of
the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was
anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way
philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism,
what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a
person. In Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an
intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.Believing that we should be
less concerned with ourselves and more with the common good, Parfit
dedicated himself to the pursuit of philosophical progress to an
extraordinary degree. He always wore gray trousers and a white shirt so
as not to lose precious time picking out clothes, he varied his diet as
little as possible, and he had only one serious non-philosophical
interest: taking photos of Oxford, Venice, and St. Petersburg. In the
latter half of his life, he single-mindedly devoted himself to a
desperate attempt to rescue secular moralitymorality without Godby
arguing that it has an objective, rational basis. For Parfit, the stakes
could scarcely have been higher. If he couldn’t demonstrate that there
are objective facts about right and wrong, he believed, his life was
futile and all our lives were meaningless.Connecting Parfit’s work and
life and offering a clear introduction to his profound and challenging
ideas, Parfit is a powerful portrait of an extraordinary thinker who
continues to have a remarkable influence on the world of ideas.