Derek Parfit

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

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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

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The part of our moral theory... That covers how we affect future generations... Is the most important part of our moral theory, since the next few centuries will be the most important in human history.

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Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea.

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Parfit, Derek. On What Matters. Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2017.

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