when we’re talking about our influence on future generations, we’re almost always talking about the former, Bob-instead-of-Alice, type case.
I admit I haven’t read Parfit yet, but can you give a concrete example of what type of influence you mean here?
I think Lewis would disagree with this claim, or at least that type of influence is not what he has in mind. The example that he uses at the beginning of Abolition of Man is about a particular school textbook, and public education is the prototypical example of “changing a particular person’s values.”
I admit I haven’t read Parfit yet, but can you give a concrete example of what type of influence you mean here?
I think Lewis would disagree with this claim, or at least that type of influence is not what he has in mind. The example that he uses at the beginning of Abolition of Man is about a particular school textbook, and public education is the prototypical example of “changing a particular person’s values.”