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Quotes from On What Matters: Volume One — Derek Parfit

1942–2017 United Kingdom

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What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity.

On What Matters: Volume One (2011)

On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

On What Matters: Volume One (2011)

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.

On What Matters: Volume One (2011)

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.

On What Matters: Volume One (2011)

Some of us ask how much of our wealth we rich people ought to give to these poorest people. But that question wrongly assumes that our wealth is ours to give. This wealth is legally ours. But these poorest people have much stronger moral claims to some of this wealth.

On What Matters: Volume One (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Derek Parfit (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.