Frases de Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit [1]​ fue un filósofo británico especializado en problemas de identidad personal, racionalidad, ética, y la relación entre ellos.

Su libro de 1984 Razones y Personas ha sido muy influyente. Su libro más reciente, On What Matters , fue discutido durante muchos años antes de su publicación.

Parfit trabajó en la Universidad de Oxford durante toda su vida académica, y fue Emérito Senior Research fellow en el All Souls College. También fue Visiting Professor of Philosophy en la Universidad de Nueva York, Universidad de Harvard y Universidad Rutgers, y recibió el Premio Schock "por su revolucionaria contribución sobre identidad personal, consideración por generaciones futuras, y análisis de la estructura de las teorías morales."[2]​

Parfit fue, además, fotógrafo y poeta. Su esposa fue la filósofa Janet Radcliffe Richards. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. diciembre 1942 – 1. enero 2017
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“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Contexto: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.

“We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 321

“To be a person, a being must be self-conscious, aware of its identity and its continued existence over time.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 202

“Certain actual sleeping pills cause retrograde amnesia. It can be true that, if I take such a pill, I shall remain awake for an hour, but after my night’s sleep I shall have no memories of the second half of this hour. I have in fact taken such pills, and found out what the results are like. Suppose that I took such a pill nearly an hour ago. The person who wakes up in my bed tomorrow will not be psychologically continuous with me as I was half an hour ago. I am now on psychological branch-line, which will end soon when I fall asleep. During this half-hour, I am psychologically continuous with myself in the past. But I am not now psychologically continuous with myself in the future. I shall never later remember what I do or think or feel during this half-hour. This means that, in some respects, my relation to myself tomorrow is like a relation to another person. Suppose, for instance, that I have been worrying about some practical question. I now see the solution. Since it is clear what I should do, I form a firm intention. In the rest of my life, it would be enough to form this intention. But, when I am no this psychological branch-line, this is not enough. I shall not later remember what I have now decided, and I shall not wake up with the intention that I have now formed. I must therefore communicate with myself tomorrow as if I was communicating with someone else. I must write myself a letter, describing my decision, and my new intention. I must then place this letter where I am bound to notice it tomorrow. I do not in fact have any memories of making such a decision, and writing such a letter. But I did once find such a letter underneath my razor.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Reasons and Persons (1984), pp. 287-288

“Even if moral truths cannot affect people, they can still be truths.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Derek Parfit, ‘Reasons and Motivation’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. vol. 71 (1997), p. 111

“Though everything is identical with itself, only I am me.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 25

“Why do we save the larger number? Because we do give equal weight to saving each. Each counts for one. That is why more count for more.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Derek Parfit, ‘Innumerate Ethics’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer, 1978), p. 301

“Why shouldn’t I eat toothpaste? It’s a free world. Why shouldn’t I chew my toenails? i happen to have trodden in some honey. Why shouldn’t I prance across central park with delicate sideways leaps? I know what your answer will be: “it isn’t done.””

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

But it’s no earthly use just saying it isn’t done. If there’s a reason why it isn’t done, give the reason—if there’s no reason, don’t attempt to stop me doing it. All other things being equal, the mere fact that something “isn’t done” is in itself an excellent reason for doing it.

p.101
Reasons and Persons (1984)

“I sometimes want to kick my car[.] Since I have this anger at material objects, which is manifestly irrational, it’s easier to me to think, when I get angry with people, that this is also irrational.”

Derek Parfit libro Reasons and Persons

Fuente: Derek Parfit, ‘An Interview with Derek Parfit’, Cogito, Vol. 9, No. 2 (August, 1995), p. 118

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