Reasons and persons
By: by Derek Parfit.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: Ethics; Rationalism; Self
Notes: Bibliography: p. [533]-540.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Self-Defeating Theories; label: 1
title: Theories That Are Indirectly Self-Defeating
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: The Self-interest Theory
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: How S Can Be Indirectly Self-defeating
pagenum: 5; label: 3
title: Does S Tell Us To Be Never Self-denying?
pagenum: 7; label: 4
title: Why S Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
pagenum: 11; label: 5
title: Could It Be Rational To Cause Onself to Act Irrationally?
pagenum: 12; label: 6
title: How S Implies that We Cannot Avoid Acting Irrationally
pagenum: 13; label: 7
title: An Argument For Rejecting S When It Comflicts With Morality
pagenum: 17; label: 8
title: Why This Argument Fails
pagenum: 19; label: 9
title: How S Might Be Self-Effacing
pagenum: 23; label: 10
title: How Consequentialism Is Indirectly Self-defeating
pagenum: 24; label: 11
title: Why C Does Not Fail In Its Own Terms
pagenum: 28; label: 12
title: The Ethics of Fantasy
pagenum: 29; label: 13
title: Collective Consequentialism
pagenum: 30; label: 14
title: Blameless Wrongdoing
pagenum: 31; label: 15
title: Could It Be Impossible to Avoid Acting Wrongly?
pagenum: 35; label: 16
title: Could It Be Right to Cause Oneself to Act Wrongly?
pagenum: 37; label: 17
title: How C Might Be Self-Effacing
pagenum: 40; label: 18
title: The Objection that Assumes Inflexibility
pagenum: 43; label: 19
title: Can Being Rational or Moral Be a Mere Means?
pagenum: 45; label: 20
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 49; label: 2
title: Practical Dilemmas
pagenum: 53; label: 21
title: Why C Cannot Be Directly Self-defeating
pagenum: 53; label: 22
title: How Theories Can Be Directly Self-defeating
pagenum: 55; label: 23
title: Prisoner's Dilemmas and Public Goods
pagenum: 56; label: 24
title: The Practical Problem and its Solutions
pagenum: 62; label: 3
title: Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics
pagenum: 67; label: 25
title: The Share-of-the-Total View
pagenum: 67; label: 26
title: Ignoring the Effects of Sets of Acts
pagenum: 70; label: 27
title: Ignoring Small Chances
pagenum: 73; label: 28
title: Ignoring Small or Imperceptible Effects
pagenum: 75; label: 29
title: Can There Be Imperceptible Harms and Benefits?
pagenum: 78; label: 30
title: Overdetermination
pagenum: 82; label: 31
title: Rational Altruism
pagenum: 83; label: 4
title: Theories That Are Directly Self-Defeating
pagenum: 87; label: 32
title: In Prisoner's Dilemmas, Does S Fail in Its Own Terms?
pagenum: 88; label: 33
title: Another Bad Defence of Morality
pagenum: 91; label: 34
title: Intertemporal Dilemmas
pagenum: 92; label: 35
title: A Bad Defence of S
pagenum: 93; label: 36
title: How Common-Sense Morality Is Directly Self-Defeating
pagenum: 95; label: 37
title: The Five Parts of a Moral Theory
pagenum: 98; label: 38
title: How We Can Revise Common-Sense Morality so that It Would Not Be Self-Defeating
pagenum: 100; label: 39
title: Why We Ought to Revise Common-Sense Morality
pagenum: 103; label: 40
title: A Simpler Revision
pagenum: 108; label: 5
title: Two Possibilities
pagenum: 111; label: 41
title: Reducing the DIstance between M and C
pagenum: 111; label: 42
title: The First Possibility
pagenum: 112; label: 43
title: Work to be Done
pagenum: 113; label: 44
title: The Second Possibility
pagenum: 114; label: 2
title: Rationality and Time; label: 6
title: The Best Objection to the Self-Interest Theory
pagenum: 117; label: 45
title: The Present-aim Theory
pagenum: 117; label: 46
title: Can Desires Be Intrinsically Irrational, or Rationally Required?
pagenum: 120; label: 47
title: Three Competing Theories
pagenum: 126; label: 48
title: Psychological Egoism
pagenum: 127; label: 49
title: The Self-interest Theory and Morality
pagenum: 129; label: 50
title: My First Argument
pagenum: 130; label: 51
title: The S-Theorist's First Reply
pagenum: 132; label: 52
title: Why Temporal Neutrality Is Not the Issue Between S and P
pagenum: 133