Showing posts with label On What Matters (Parfit). Show all posts
Showing posts with label On What Matters (Parfit). Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2011

Do we have reasons to enjoy music?


Here's an interesting passage from Derek Parfit's On What Matters (p. 53)--
Many people hate the sound of squeaking chalk. I hate the feeling of touching velvet, the sound of buzzing house-flies, and the flattening, deadening effect of some overhead lights.  The oddness of these dislikes does not make me less than fully rational. Whether we like, dislike, or are indifferent to these various