الأسباب والأشخاص (Reasons and Persons)

مقدمة

Parfit’s first book, published by Oxford University Press in 1984, has four parts. Part one shows that some moral theories, including common-sense morality, are in certain cases self-defeating; part two deals with rationality and time. Part three, the best known, uses thought experiments such as teleportation and the division of a brain to argue that personal identity is not a deep further fact, and that what matters in survival is psychological connectedness and continuity. Part four, on future generations, introduces the “non-identity problem” and the “repugnant conclusion” of population ethics. Parfit found the reductionist view liberating: the “glass tunnel” in which he had seemed to live, he wrote, disappeared.

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• مقال خاص بالفهم البشري1689 · جون لوك
• رسالة في الطبيعة البشرية1739 · ديفيد هيوم
• مناهج الأخلاق (The Methods of Ethics)1874 · هنري سيدجويك

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• حول ما يهم (On What Matters)2011 · ديريك بارفيت

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• الذات عينها كآخر (Soi-même comme un autre)1990 · بول ريكور

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