The Unity of a Person

The Unity of a Person
Title The Unity of a Person PDF eBook
Author Jörg Noller
Publisher Routledge
Pages 243
Release 2021-09-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1000450392

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Strong collection on a perennial topic in philosophy Distinctive in bringing together three approaches to personal identity: metaphysical, phenomenological and social

Staying Alive

Staying Alive
Title Staying Alive PDF eBook
Author Marya Schechtman
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 225
Release 2014-03-14
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191507784

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Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear just how to express this relation between facts about personal identity and practical interests in a philosophical account of personal identity. A natural thought is that whatever relation is proposed as the one which constitutes the sameness of a person must be important to us in just the way identity is. This simple understanding of the connection between personal identity and practical concerns has serious difficulties, however. One is that the relations that underlie our practical judgments do not seem suited to providing a metaphysical account of the basic, literal continuation of an entity. Another is that the practical interests we associate with identity are many and varied and it seems impossible that a single relation could simultaneously capture what is necessary and sufficient for all of them. Staying Alive offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests which allows us to overcome these difficulties and to offer a view in which the most basic and literal facts about personal identity are inherently connected to practical concerns. This account, the 'Person Life View', sees persons as unified loci of practical interaction, and defines the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life made up of dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social attributes and functions mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.

Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature

Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
Title Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature PDF eBook
Author Robert Pasnau
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 516
Release 2002
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521001892

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A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.

Plato and the Divided Self

Plato and the Divided Self
Title Plato and the Divided Self PDF eBook
Author Rachel Barney
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 409
Release 2012-02-16
Genre History
ISBN 0521899664

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Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza

Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza
Title Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza PDF eBook
Author Chantal Jaquet
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 167
Release 2018-01-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1474433200

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Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.

One

One
Title One PDF eBook
Author Graham Priest
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 281
Release 2014-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199688257

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Explores philosophical questions concerning the one and the many, covering a wide range of issues in metaphysics and deploying techniques of paraconsistent logic while bringing together traditions of Western and Asian thought.

Original Unity of Man and Woman

Original Unity of Man and Woman
Title Original Unity of Man and Woman PDF eBook
Author Pope John Paul II
Publisher Pauline Books & Media
Pages 196
Release 1981
Genre Religion
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