Reasons And Persons (Derek Parfit) - Book Review
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The Importance of Moral Philosophy
The book itself is split into four parts so the four parts that are here are part one self-defeating theories, part two rationality in time, part three personal identity and part four future generations with a concluding chapter. This is further split into 20 chapters with things such as the non-identity problem The best objection to the self-interest theory practical dilemmas five mistakes in moral mathematics and he has a hundred and fifty-four subsections which go throughout all of these. It's it's a it's an immense book in many in many different ways it is it is really truly a long read and a deep and hard read at that I'm going to jump into the the themes
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