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| #28977 in Books | imusti | 1986-02-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.06 x.98 x7.75l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 560 pages | Oxford University Press, USA||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Many fascinating ideas in ethics and personhood|By Patrick McCuller|I got this book hoping for insights on temporal metaphysics and found a cornucopia of ideas, analyses, and gedankenexperiments on the nature of personhood. The moral calculus of time and self is neatly laid out for exploration (do you have obligations to your past self?) A class of problems is deeply probed:|||"Very few works in the subject can compare with Parfit's in scope, fertility, imaginative resource, and cogency of reasoning."--P.F. Strawson, The New York of Books||"Complex, brilliant, and entertaining....This book is chock-full of impressive arg
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 t...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Reasons and Persons | Derek Parfit.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
