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Reasons and persons /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parfit, Derek
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1984.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Rationalism.
Self.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Theories that are indirectly self-defeating
  • Practical dilemmas
  • Fice mistakes in moral mathematics
  • Theories that are directly self-defeating
  • Two possibilities
  • The best objection to the self-intersest theory
  • The appeal to full relativity
  • Different attitudes to time
  • Why we should reject S
  • What we believe ourselves to be
  • How we are not what we believe
  • Why our identity is not what we believe
  • Why our identity is not what matters
  • What does matter
  • Personal identity and rationality
  • Personal identity and morality
  • The non-identity problem
  • The repugnant conclusion
  • The absurd conclusion
  • The mere addition paradox.