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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'How Things Persist' and 'The Prince'

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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self
On any theory of self, it is hard to explain why we should care about our future selves [Hawley]
     Full Idea: It is rather difficult to say why one should care about one's future self, even on an endurance theory account of the self.
     From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.9)
     A reaction: A nice passing remark, that strikes me forcibly as one of those basic mysteries of experience that philosophers can only gawp at, and have no theory to offer.