What We Owe Past Selves

Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (5):936-950 (2023)
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Abstract

Some say that we should respect the privacy of dead people. In this article, I take this idea for granted and use it to motivate the stronger claim that we sometimes ought to respect the privacy of our past selves.

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Lauritz Munch
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Moral duties to past-selves.Agnès Baehni & Vincent Grandjean - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.

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