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#321 — Reckoning with Parfit
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Parfett's Reasons in Persons
I consider it one of the great missed opportunities for me because I just love his work. But there's something really otherworldly about the book. It strikes one as written from maybe, you know, the point of view of someone coming from outer space and just manufacturing thought experiments by which to understand human morality. He basically invents this whole subgenre of more philosophy. Until then, there was nothing that we now call population ethics.
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