Ideas about Personal Identity - PE after death: Self, Death & Afterlife

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Three ideas of personal identity

- Personal identity is physical

- Personal identity is metaphysical

- Personal identity is psychological

<p>- Personal identity is physical</p><p>- Personal identity is metaphysical</p><p>- Personal identity is psychological</p>
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Personal identity is physical

- Physicalist view = A functioning brain is essential to being a person

- Many changes to the body throughout life, so bodily "identity" is about spatio-temporal continuity

<p>- Physicalist view = A functioning brain is essential to being a person</p><p>- Many changes to the body throughout life, so bodily "identity" is about spatio-temporal continuity</p>
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Personal identity is metaphysical

- What is real about individuals is their unchanged conscious awareness

- Campbell gave example of Big Ben striking the hour to argue that there is such a thing as a conscious, self-aware mind

<p>- What is real about individuals is their unchanged conscious awareness</p><p>- Campbell gave example of Big Ben striking the hour to argue that there is such a thing as a conscious, self-aware mind</p>
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Personal identity is psychological

- Seen in the views of Derek Parfit

- During our lives there's connectedness to the past & future, but no deeper & enduring sense of 'self'

- There is genetic & psychological continuity with ancestors, & after death, with offspring and descendants

<p>- Seen in the views of Derek Parfit</p><p>- During our lives there's connectedness to the past &amp; future, but no deeper &amp; enduring sense of 'self'</p><p>- There is genetic &amp; psychological continuity with ancestors, &amp; after death, with offspring and descendants</p>