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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2022040769 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691225234 |
| Qualifying information | (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 192 |
| Edition number | 23/eng/20221020 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edmonds, David, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1964- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Parfit : |
| Remainder of title | a philosopher and his mission to save morality / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | David Edmonds. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE | |
| Projected publication date | 2304 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Princeton : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Princeton University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2023] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxii, 380 pages |
| Dimensions | 24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Media type code | n |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Carrier type code | nc |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 2755.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface: What Matters;<br/>Acknowledgements;<br/>1 Made in China;<br/>2 Prepping for Life; <br/>3 Eton Titan;<br/>4 History Boy;<br/>5 Oxford Words;<br/>6 An American Dream;<br/>7 Soul Man;<br/>8 The Teletransporter; <br/>9 A Transatlantic Affair,; <br/>10 The Parfit Scandal;<br/>11 Work, Work, Work, and Janet;<br/>12 Moral Mathematics;<br/>13 The Mind's Eye in Mist and Snow;<br/>14 Glory! Promotion!; <br/>15 The Blues and the Bluebell Woods; <br/>16 The Priority View;<br/>17 Derekarnia;<br/>18 Alpha Gamma Kant;<br/>19 Climbing the Mountain;<br/>20 Lifeboats, Tunnels, and Bridges;<br/>21 Marriage and Pizza;<br/>22 Incompatible with Life; <br/>23 Parfit's Gamble; <br/>Chronology <br/>Notes <br/>Bibliography <br/>Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher you've likely never heard of. In 1984, Parfit published what was, and is still, hailed by many philosophers as a work of genius - one of the most cited works of philosophy since World War II, Reasons and Persons. At its core, he argued that we should be concerned less with our own interests and more with the common good. His book brims with brilliant argumentative detail and stunningly inventive thought experiments that challenged contemporary views about what it means to be a person, why one should forego concern for oneself as an identity that persists over time, what it means to act on the basis of reasons, and what we owe to future generations. Parfit also - unfashionably at the time - believed in a kind of grand unified theory of morality, what he called theory x, a non-religious ethical theory wherein all the major moral theories were converging from different sides on the same mountaintop. Parfit has had an enormous influence not only on philosophy, but also beyond, particularly amongst those in the fields of climate ethics, poverty relief, and charitable giving. In this book, the first-full scale biography of Parfit, Dave Edmonds tells the story of the thinker that many philosophers consider the most important moral philosopher of the last century. Edmonds' rendering of the man in full skilfully illuminates the person behind the acclaimed philosopher. Despite Parfit's extraordinary mind, outward appearances suggest his was also an extraordinarily uneventful life - one largely spent in cloistered institutions from Eton to Oxford and one seemingly monomaniacally devoted to ideas. Edmonds' aim is to show how this son and grandson of missionaries went from a genial and outgoing history student to a captivating, yet monkish philosopher singularly devoted to saving morality. In doing so, Edmonds makes Parfit's profound, but often impenetrable, ideas accessible to a broad audience and gives life and body to the thoughts of a seemingly pure thinker that captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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. Regarded by some as the greatest moral thinker since John Stuart Mill, 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 morality-morality without God-by 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"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Parfit, Derek. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophers |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | HB | National Law School | National Law School | General Stacks | 12.09.2023 | Purchased - Educational Supplies | 2755.00 | 2 | 6 | 192 EDM | 39287 | 29.02.2024 | 06.10.2023 | 12.09.2023 | BOOKs | Recommended by Prof. Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy |