Philosophy

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit · 1984

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3,246·Classic

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Sam HarrisNeuroscientist & author

I also recommend Derek Parfit’s book, “Reasons and Persons,” which is just brilliant and written as though by an alien intelligence. It’s a deeply strange book filled with thought experiments that bend your intuitions left and right.It’s just a truly strange and unique document and incredibly insightful about morality and questions of identity and well worth reading if you are of a philosophical cast of mind.

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