How To Be Good | The New Yorker
newyorker.com · 10,718 words · saved by 4 readers
An Oxford philosopher thinks he can distill all morality into a formula. Is he right?
Save this story Save this story What makes me the same person throughout my life, and a different person from you? And what is the importance of these facts? I believe that most of us have false beliefs about our own nature, and our identity over time, and that, when we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do. Derek Parfit has few memories of his past and almost never thinks about it, a fact that he attributes to an inability to form mental images. Photograph by Steve Pyke / GETTY You are in a terrible accident. Your body is fatally injured, as are
saved by
related reading
- Derek Parfit - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Why I am not an effective altruist - by Erik Hoeltheintrinsicperspective.com
- Reason and romance: The world's most cerebral marriageprospectmagazine.co.uk
- Parfit Bio - SJ BEARDsjbeard.weebly.com
- Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Supermanastralcodexten.com
- Beware Isolated Demands For Rigorslatestarcodex.com
- Consequentialism FAQweb.archive.org
- Being John Rawls - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Tenastralcodexten.com
- mda75bad67d00ec1a6695f5352425966eora.ox.ac.uk
- Rented Virtue - by Will Manidis and Nabeel S. Qureshiminutes.substack.com
- The Sovereignty of Goodeganphilosophy.com
- Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion | 80,000 Hours80000hours.org