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Parfit's Challenges

In his long awaited book On What Matters Parfit develops a normative theory that covers a whole range of normative concepts from reasons and rationality to questions of moral progress and meaning of life. This paper focuses on Parfit's view on reasons and rationality, and it especially concentrates on three theses that are implicitly or explicitly endorsed by Parfit. The theses are: 1) the concept of a normative reason cannot be explicated in a non-circular way ; 2) rationality of non-normative beliefs never influences the rationality of desires and actions ; and 3) there are no desired-based reasons. The main aim of the present paper is to critically evaluate plausibility of the latter three theses.

Reasons ; rationality ; desire and object-based theories

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