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Earnest, spare, cool and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Derek Parfit
- First published
- February 20, 1986
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780198249085
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First sentence
“WHAT do we have most reason to do?”
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