Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
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ISBN: 9780198249085
Oxford University Press, 1986
Paperback, 560 pages
Reasons and Persons is a major work in moral philosophy in which Derek Parfit examines rationality, personal identity, and ethics.
Parfit challenges several deeply held beliefs about what it is rational to do, arguing that people often act against their own best interests and that many common moral intuitions are inconsistent or self-defeating. He also explores questions of personal identity over time and raises difficult problems about how we should think about future generations.