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Parfit : A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>From the bestselling coauthor of <i>Wittgenstein’s Poker</i>, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism</b><br><br>Derek 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: equal
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Edmonds
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691225258
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Social Science, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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