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| 9762 | We should focus less on subjects of experience, and more on the experiences themselves |
| Full Idea: It becomes more plausible, when thinking morally, to focus less upon the person, the subject of experiences, and instead to focus more upon the experiences themselves. | |||
| From: Derek Parfit (Reasons and Persons [1984], §116) | |||
| A reaction: This pinpoints how Parfit moves from a view of persons in terms of continuity of consciousness to a utilitarian morality. It brings out nicely what is wrong with utilitarianism - the reductio of a great ball of nice experiences, with no one having them. |