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Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 (Paperback)
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Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 (Paperback)
Series: Social Philosophy and Policy
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What is a person? What makes me the same person today that I was
yesterday or will be tomorrow? Philosophers have long pondered
these questions. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates observed that all
of us are constantly undergoing change: we experience physical
changes to our bodies, as well as changes in our 'manners, customs,
opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, [and] fears'. Aristotle
theorized that there must be some underlying 'substratum' that
remains the same even as we undergo these changes. John Locke
rejected Aristotle's view and reformulated the problem of personal
identity in his own way: is a person a physical organism that
persists through time, or is a person identified by the persistence
of psychological states, by memory? These essays - written by
prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists - offer
valuable insights into the nature of personal identity and its
implications for morality and public policy.
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