Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part 2) #Philosophy #Parfit

Another short clip of Derek Parfit in an interview discussing the nature of identity across time. He makes use of an analogy from Hume which compares the existence of a person to that of a nation. This comes from a 1996 program called Brainspotting.

#Philosophy #Parfit

[TheNeveguedok]

Aristotle’s conception is better than Hume’s.

[anonymoushuman]

So who and what, on this account, was the entity we refer to as 'Derek Parfit', such that we correctly attribute these words and the view expressed by them to that individual? Was there even such an entity, on this view? What did Parfit mean when he used the word 'I', and what did he think he meant?