An edition of Reasons and persons
(1984)
Reasons and persons
by Derek Parfit
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Table of Contents
1. Self-Defeating Theories
1. Theories That Are Indirectly Self-Defeating
1. The Self-interest Theory
2. How S Can Be Indirectly Self-defeating
3. Does S Tell Us To Be Never Self-denying?
4. Why S Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
5. Could It Be Rational To Cause Onself to Act Irrationally?
6. How S Implies that We Cannot Avoid Acting Irrationally
7. An Argument For Rejecting S When It Comflicts With Morality
8. Why This Argument Fails
9. How S Might Be Self-Effacing
10. How Consequentialism Is Indirectly Self-defeating
11. Why C Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
12. The Ethics of Fantasy
13. Collective Consequentialism
14. Blameless Wrongdoing
15. Could It Be Impossible to Avoid Acting Wrongly?
16. Could It Be Right to Cause Oneself to Act Wrongly?
17. How C Might Be Self-Effacing
18. The Objection that Assumes Inflexibility
19. Can Being Rational or Moral Be a Mere Means?
20. Conclusions
2. Practical Dilemmas
21. Why C Cannot Be Directly Self-defeating
22. How Theories Can Be Directly Self-defeating
23. Prisoner's Dilemmas and Public Goods
24. The Practical Problem and its Solutions
3. Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
25. The Share-of-the-Total View
26. Ignoring the Effects of Sets of Acts
27. Ignoring Small Chances
28. Ignoring Small or Imperceptible Effects
29. Can There Be Imperceptible Harms and Benefits?
30. Overdetermination
31. Rational Altruism
4. Theories That Are Directly Self-Defeating
32. In Prisoner's Dilemmas, Does S Fail in Its Own Terms?
33. Another Bad Defence of Morality
34. Intertemporal Dilemmas
35. A Bad Defence of S
36. How Common-Sense Morality Is Directly Self-Defeating
37. The Five Parts of a Moral Theory
38. How We Can Revise Common-Sense Morality so that It Would Not Be Self-Defeating
39. Why We Ought to Revise Common-Sense Morality
40. A Simpler Revision
5. Two Possibilities
41. Reducing the DIstance between M and C
42. The First Possibility
43. Work to be Done
44. The Second Possibility
2. Rationality and Time
6. The Best Objection to the Self-Interest Theory
45. The Present-aim Theory
46. Can Desires Be Intrinsically Irrational, or Rationally Required?
47. Three Competing Theories
48. Psychological Egoism
49. The Self-interest Theory and Morality
50. My First Argument
51. The S-Theorist's First Reply
52. Why Temporal Neutrality Is Not the Issue Between S and P
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. [533]-540.
Includes index.
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