Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Philosophy and Policy
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	2005
Editors:	Ellen Frankel Paul • Fred D. Miller Jr • Jeffrey Paul
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61767-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-521-61767-7
Barcode:	9780521617673

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