Though everything is identical with itself, only I am me. - Derek Parfit

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

Derek Parfit

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About Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit (11 December 1942 – 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them.

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Alternative Names: Derek Antony Parfit

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What now matters most is that we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to overheat the Earth's atmosphere, and taking care of this planet in other ways, so that it continues to support intelligent life.

To think about reality we must use concepts, and certain truths about concepts may reveal, or reflect, truths about reality.

It has been widely believed that there are such deep disagreements between Kantians, Contractualists, and Consequentialists. That, I have argued, is not true. These people are climbing the same mountain on different sides.