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Reasons and Persons

By: Derek Parfit
Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.

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Reasons and Persons solves the identity problem which should be familiar to all philosophy undergraduates, and it analyzes the concept of a “reason” which is properly explored in On What Matters.

To the reviews complaining that this text is too dense to be an audiobook: dude, some people are blind. Deal with it by getting a physical copy. Parfit has an incredibly straightforward writing style.

To the review claiming that this is “the worst book [you’ve] ever read,” since the list of books you’ve read is mostly fantasy-romance and softcore, I’m honestly not surprised.

Among the greatest works of contemporary philosophy

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A foundational treatment of consequentialism and it's consequences. This work is the source of many important philosophical ideas in morality.

Great work of philosophy

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I’m glad to have listened to a recording of this book, I could not possibly bear it as a text. If you think the narration is too slow, just speed it up.

Worst book I’ve ever read, good performance

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Narration is clearly spliced together. Random words will sound different and not flow with the speech. Poor production.

Too dense for an audiobook + bad narration

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I was not happy with this purchase. I couldn’t get through it and stopped trying to listen.

Thick

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Read at a painfully slow pace and the edit is terrible. Its been chopped up and pasted together so often that it is comparable to let Siri read a book for you. Often several cuts in the same sentence and sometimes even single words. The slow reading made me have to listen to it in between x1.5 - x2.0 which doesn’t help for the experience. The worst production of over 100 nonfiction audiobooks I’ve listened to. Totally destroyed an otherwise interesting book.

Terrible recording

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