Reasons and PersonsClarendon Press, 1987 - 543 páginas Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing. |
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RATIONALITY AND TIME | 115 |
PERSONAL IDENTITY | 197 |
FUTURE GENERATIONS | 349 |
CONCLUDING CHAPTER | 443 |
APPENDICES | 457 |
Notes | 505 |
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accept achieve acting irrationally acting wrongly answer appeal apply argued argument assume bad effects benefit brain and body cause cease to exist child choice Common-Sense Morality concern Consequentialist Consider continued existence deny Derek Parfit desires discuss disposition fulfil further fact give happens happiness harm Hedonistic imagined implies involve irrational justified kind later less matters Mere Addition Paradox moral reason moral theory Nagel never self-denying Non-Reductionist View objection outcome better outcome worse outweighed pain past personal identity plausible possible Present-aim Theory Prisoner's Dilemmas psychological connectedness psychological continuity Psychological Criterion pure do-gooders question reasons for acting Reductionist View reject relation Replica Repugnant Conclusion resulting person revised S-Theorist self-defeating Self-interest Theory separately existing entities series-person Sidgwick Social Discount Rate someone stream of consciousness suffering Suppose Teletransportation temporally neutral theories about self-interest Theorist threat-fulfiller transitive relation true Utilitarians worth living wrong