Reasons and Persons (Racje i osoby)

Wprowadzenie

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.

Powiązania

Nawiązuje do

• Rozważania dotyczące rozumu ludzkiego1689 · John Locke
• Traktat o naturze ludzkiej1739 · David Hume
• The Methods of Ethics (Metody etyki)1874 · Henry Sidgwick

Podjęte w

• On What Matters (O tym, co się liczy)2011 · Derek Parfit

Krytykowane w

• Siebie jako innego1990 · Paul Ricoeur

Więcej dzieł: Derek Parfit

• 2011On What Matters (O tym, co się liczy)