William MacAskill. What We Owe The Future
My notes on an impressive book making the case for longtermism, the view that positively influencing the future is a key moral priority. Future people count, there could be a lot of them, and we can make their lives go better.
How Both Human History and The History Of Ethics May be Just Beginning
A discussion of my favourite philosophical passage, the final section of Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons. In a few paragraphs he introduces two profound ideas: the importance of humanity’s long-term future and that non-religious ethics has only just begun.