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Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity
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Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity
An examination of what constitutes personal identity and the relationship between identity and bodily continuity.
2,077 words (approx. 8.3 pages) |
5 sources |
APA | 2009
Paper Summary:
This paper discusses whether bodily continuity is necessary for personal identity. It defines the meaning of identity, as well as the way that the term 'personal identity" is understood. In determining what constitutes identity, the paper also examines to what extent a person can undergo change and still retain his or her identity and if someone's mind is suddenly and radically changed, whether the original person simply disappears, to be replaced by someone else.Table of Contents:
Introduction and Overview
The Body-Mind Dilemma Identity
Bernard Williams and Derek Parfit
Conclusions
From the Paper:
"Williams on the other hand, while acknowledging aspects of psychological continuity in identity, emphasizes that the body cannot be excluded from identity. Both these theories present cogent points and their views often interrelate and overlap to a great degees. However, in the final analysis there is no single definitive answer to the central question of this paper. A possible answer lies in alternative and "simpler' points of view, which question the fundamental assumption of the division between body and mind. This view explores identity from a perspective that attempts to transcend thinking in terms of this opposition."Sample of Sources Used:
- Belshaw C. and Price C. PERSONAL IDENTITY, ( reference not provided)
- Derek Parfit ( 1971) Personal Identity. The Philosophical Review, LXXX, 3.
- Personal Identity as Psychological Continuity. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:sD0DKJO3oPQJ:ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdo nlyres/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/24-03Spring-2005/5A8BFC59-566D- 4639-88E0- ECFF58DDF6F3/0/l5_pi_psych_cont.pdf+Bernard+Williams+and+identity &hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=51&gl=za
- Ray C. ( 1998) Identity And Universals: A Conceptualist Approach to Logical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Problems of Contemporary Identity Theory. http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/text/carolynray/diss/04.ht ml
- Williams Bernard (1973) Problems of the Self: Philosophical Papers 1956-1972. Cambridge University Press
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Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Personal-Identity-and-Bodily-Continuity/115363
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"Personal Identity and Bodily Continuity" 15 January 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Personal-Identity-and-Bodily-Continuity/115363>
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