🧡 2/5 After reading about his eccentricities, one might think that Parfit would have been insufferable as an intimate partner and hence doomed to a life without romance or marriage. In fact, this was not the case, as this article by his admirer and biographer makes clear:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philosophy/46516/reason-and-romance-the-worlds-most-cerebral-marriage

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Reason and romance: The world's most cerebral marriage

Derek Parfit and Janet Radcliffe-Richards believe that philosophy should guide behaviour. Their marriage shows that it can