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Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks)

Derek Parfit

Pursuing our own good can defeat that aim; psychological continuity may matter more than identity; and choices affecting future people raise moral puzzles with no easy solution.

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20 parts, about 45 minutes to read.

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Author
Derek Parfit
Parts
20 parts
Reading time
about 45 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Theories That Are Indirectly Self Defeating3 min
  2. Practical Dilemmas2 min
  3. Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics3 min
  4. Theories That Are Directly Self Defeating3 min
  5. Conclusions1 min
  6. The Best Objection to the Self Interest Theory3 min
  7. The Appeal to Full Relativity2 min
  8. Different Attitudes to Time3 min
  9. Why We Should Reject S2 min
  10. What We Believe Ourselves to Be2 min
  11. How We Are Not What We Believe2 min
  12. Why Our Identity Is Not What Matters2 min
  13. What Does Matter2 min
  14. Personal Identity and Rationality2 min
  15. Personal Identity and Morality2 min
  16. The Non Identity Problem3 min
  17. The Repugnant Conclusion1 min
  18. The Absurd Conclusion2 min
  19. The Mere Addition Paradox3 min
  20. Concluding Chapter2 min

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