Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Identity is not what matters for defining the scope of eg... — Carmelics
    Home/Moral Responsibility
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Supports→The wishes of EAS expressed in her advance directive ought to control decisions about FDS's life, even at the cost of FDS's good.

    Identity is not what matters for defining the scope of egoistic concern; what matters is Relation R (psychological continuity and connectedness).

    Moral ResponsibilityPersonal Identity
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

    No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Topics

    Moral ResponsibilityPersonal Identity

    Connections

    1 topic

    Bioethics5 linked

    Related

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Browse more in Moral Responsibility
    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    EAS is strongly R-related to most previous stages of her life but only weakly R-...The longer FDS lives, the worse FDS might retrospectively render EAS's life.The part of the person's life most deeply prudentially unified is the larger, mo...The wishes of EAS expressed in her advance directive ought to control decisions ...
    +1 moreShow less
    What is good for the deepest and longest prudential unity is closest to what is ...

    Similar

    What matters for moral responsibility is psychological continuity or c...78%Universalist concern is concern for another simply as a human being, i...77%Under Parfit's Moderate Claim, psychological continuity matters as muc...77%Stirner explicitly considers and rejects the explanatory stance of psy...76%

    Source

    AI-extracted
    SEP: identity-ethics
    View source passageHide passage
    And here is yet another way of looking at the matter. Suppose we agree with Parfit and others that identity just is not what matters for, among other things, defining and delimiting the scope of egoistic concern; suppose instead it is Relation R. FDS, because of her loss of memory and the like, will bear a very limited degree of that relation to EAS. EAS will thus be strongly R-related with most of the previous stages of her life (the chains of connectedness, let us stipulate, are very st

    Details

    Type
    premise
    Perspectives
    0 (0 for, 0 against)
    Edits
    1 edit

    Open for perspectives

    This idea is waiting for its first supporting or challenging perspective.

    Share the first perspective