Article Summaries Leibniz’s Spatio-temporal Continuity: Most people agree that the spatiotemporal continuity is a good guide to determine a person’s identity‚ but philosophers want more. The theory says that spatiotemporally continuous stays with the body not the mind. For example if two people switch bodies like they do in Freaky Friday then they are then the mind in the daughter’s body is the daughter and the mind in the mother’s body is the mother’s. Locke’s Psychological Continuity: According
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Since the dawn of time‚ humans have strived to understand their identity through a variety of different theories. This paper will be a look at three different theories used at understanding identity and what sort of issues and questions come along with these different theories. First things first‚ what is personal identity? Personal identity is the idea and ideas that you develop about yourself through your life and eventually become the way you identify yourself in that life. This identity includes
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On April 4‚ 2009 at Biola University‚ there was a debate regarding the existence of God between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens. This debate was very interesting because both philosophers felt strongly about their opinion. William Lane Craig was first to speak and discussed his side of the debate very clearly. Craig stated that he believed in religion and philosophy. He also made it lucid that he believes that there are no good arguments that atheism is true‚ but there are a myriad of
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thing as one’s survival. First‚ I will examine how Parfit comes to this conclusion and provide some examples from his text. Next‚ I will attempt to explain what Parfit decides is the most important aspect of one’s personal identity which is connectedness. Lastly‚ I will look at connectedness apposed to continuity and why Parfit believes that connectedness is more important and must be looked at as a matter of degree. To begin his argument Parfit starts with an example of a man dividing like an amoeba
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In Reasons and Persons‚ Parfit brought an important feature into the consideration related to the moral duty of the existing people toward the future people. Parfit starts with stating that it is when the parents mate that has a decisive impact on who or which particular person is born. This implies that if someone’s parents had not mated at a certain time‚ that someone would have been replaced by someone else. The implication of this argument is that the policies existing people implement at the
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reject the charge as directed at AHX. The target of the film is racist neo-Nazi extremism‚ and while early on the film clearly offers a romantic and heroic depiction of its racist protagonist‚ what is being romanticized is primarily the character Derek Vinyard‚ not the racist ideology he embraces but eventually rejects. One reason the film is so effective is that it does not shy away from showing the protagonist as someone who embraces a Nazi ideology but is‚ at the same time‚ charismatic‚ brave
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In this essay‚ I will first define the Ego and Bundle theories‚ set up their differences‚ make a case for why I believe the Bundle Theory is more successful than the Ego theory‚ and lastly‚ explain why the Bundle Theory‚ if true‚ would radically change the way we see and understand ourselves. The Ego Theory‚ simply stated‚ is the view that explains the continuity of a person as the continued existence of a particular ego or subject. Examples of what these particular egos could include physical
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The stimulus selected is a scene from TV series “Dexter” where Dexter makes a speech about a hidden identity within his physical body. His line “I’m not sure what I am‚ I just know there’s something dark...in me...it’s there‚ always.” This leads me to consider the issue of personal identity and Shakespeare’s quote‚ “We know what we are‚ but not what we may be”. Human beings are physical matter that exist in time and are aware of their identity and existence. We often believe we remain the same person
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In what ways and to what extent is Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale appropriate to its teller‚ "a verray parfit‚ gentil knycht?Sophie KingChaucer’s Knight’s Tale is a story in which the courtly ideals of the chivalric knight are questioned. The narrator of the story‚ a knight himself‚ tells us about the noble Theseus and his rule over Athens. Theseus is appropriate to the description "a verray parfit gentil knycht" as much as the narrator himself but we come to question the perfection of both as the story
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Jared White Don Wacome Philosophy and Christianity May 2‚ 2010 Personal Identity and the Afterlife Inquiring about personal identity will inevitably give birth to questions dealing with our being people‚ or‚ as many philosophers like to say‚ persons. To the thoughtful person‚ these questions may be familiar‚ but still remain complex: What am I? When did I begin existing? What is going to happen to me when I die? Others are more complex: How is it that a person can persist from one time
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