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      • Volume 22, Part 2
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2014
      July 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511759345
      9780521617673
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759345
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.561kg, 404 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Social Philosophy and Policy
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Social Philosophy and Policy
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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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