While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. - Derek Parfit
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
- Derek Parfit
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. - Derek Parfit
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing - Derek Parfit
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people… - Derek Parfit
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people…
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it ma… - Derek Parfit
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it ma…
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their des… - Derek Parfit
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their des…
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