理与人

简介

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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• 人类理解论1689 · 约翰·洛克
• 人性论1739 · 大卫·休谟
• 伦理学方法1874 · 亨利·西季威克

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• 论重要之事2011 · 德里克·帕菲特

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• 作为他者的自身1990 · 保罗·利科

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