Razones y personas

To the extent that this work of his has become an inescapable point of reference for current philosophizing, we can consider Derek Parfit a true living classic. Indeed, his approach to the problem of personal identity through time, in a line that Hume inaugurated in modern times, but which can be linked without too many problems, if we want to adopt a cross-cultural perspective, with the most incisive of Buddhist thought, For more than twenty years now, it has been at the center of the passionate intellectual debate that has been unfolding around this important issue. Question that directly links with the problems of practical rationality and ethics, and whose philosophical treatment would not fail to have significant psychological repercussions on all of us, for example, in our attitude towards aging and death. In this Spanish edition of Reasons and People is included, by way of "epilogue", a definitive update of the Parfitian reductionism of personal identity, written more than ten years later. In short, we would find ourselves before one of the culminating works of thought at the end of the 20th century: its brilliance and spectacular intellectual vigor have not been able to fail to be recognized even by the most determined opponents of the surprising theses defended in it.