Personal Identity: Volume 22, Part 2 Paperback / softback
Edited by Ellen Frankel (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) Paul, Jr, Fred D. (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) Miller, Jeffrey (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) Paul
Part of the Social Philosophy and Policy series
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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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- Pages:404 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/07/2005
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- ISBN:9780521617673
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:404 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/07/2005
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- ISBN:9780521617673
