Reasons and Persons

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Reasons and Persons

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ethics
Ethical egoism
English philosopher Derek Parfit in Reasons and Persons (1984).
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English philosopher Derek Parfit in Reasons and Persons (1984).
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ethics
Environmental ethics
…ingeniously explored in Parfit’s aforementioned Reasons and Persons. What is optimum population? Is it the population size at which the average level of welfare will be as high as possible? Or is it the size at which the total amount of welfare is as great as possible? There were decisive…
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…ingeniously explored in Parfit’s aforementioned Reasons and Persons. What is optimum population? Is it the population size at which the average level of welfare will be as high as possible? Or is it the size at which the total amount of welfare is as great as possible? There were decisive…
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Derek Parfit
…publication of Parfit’s first book, Reasons and Persons (1984), created a sensation among English-speaking academic philosophers, who were impressed by its originality, its intricate and ingenious argument, its immense fertility, and its panoramic scope. Parfit held that conventional philosophical notions regarding the nature of persons and their presumed identity over…
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…publication of Parfit’s first book, Reasons and Persons (1984), created a sensation among English-speaking academic philosophers, who were impressed by its originality, its intricate and ingenious argument, its immense fertility, and its panoramic scope. Parfit held that conventional philosophical notions regarding the nature of persons and their presumed identity over…
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personal identity
Fission and special concern
In Reasons and Persons (1984) and other works, he argued that one’s special concern is not with personal identity per se but with the psychological continuity and connectedness that is normally sufficient for personal identity but is not sufficient in cases of fission. If by “survival”…
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In Reasons and Persons (1984) and other works, he argued that one’s special concern is not with personal identity per se but with the psychological continuity and connectedness that is normally sufficient for personal identity but is not sufficient in cases of fission. If by “survival”…
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