“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.” — Derek Parfit Copy Share
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness.… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit Copy Share
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… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing — Derek Parfit Copy Share
