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Derek Parfit - On What Matters (2011)

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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.

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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.

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Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

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No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit
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Born: December 11, 1942
Died: January 1, 2017 (aged 74)
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