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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Identity

The famous non-identity problem is very interesting and has interesting implications for ethics. What were Parfits insights around the topic of identity? He was interested in what it was that makes us the same person over time. And his, I guess he had a few insights, but the first was that there was no essence of us.

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