· Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit. Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This book is Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. As the title suggests, Parfit is concerned with reasons for action and the persons who hold those reasons. His excellent “Concluding Chapter” provides a succinct summary: My two subjects are reasons and persons. I have argued that, in various ways, our reasons for . Reasons and Persons. by. Derek Parfit. · Rating details · 1, ratings · 99 reviews. 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/5().
Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons is one such book. This dense, esoteric text coaxed me right up to the cliff's edge of my philosophical comprehension, and then shoved me off without ceremony. Even so, I had a few intriguing concepts to contemplate on the way down. Although I probably lack the raw intelligence to grapple appropriately with. Reasons and Persons. Derek Parfit. Description. 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. Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit Abstract. This book has four loosely connected parts. Part One discusses some ways in which theories about morality and rationality can be self‐defeating. Such theories give us certain aims, but also tell us to act in ways that frustrate these aims. If these theories are revised, these objections can be partly.
Reasons and Persons By Parfit,Derek. Finally, I record my greatgratitudetoan entitythatis nota person:AllSouls bltadwin.ru had nothad the. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit. Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This book is his most famous work. Reasons and Persons is divided into four sections, of which I think the 3rd and 4th are the most fun and interesting. The first two systematically showing that ethical egoism and common-sense intuitions about morality are incoherent and that consequentialism solve all the problems these two bases of morality contain.
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