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EXPLAIN LOCKE’S THEORY OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. IS IT CONVINCING? Locke has three main aims in putting forward his account of personal identity
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Jared Dunbar 9733163 12.11.01 Tutor: Peter Lewis EXPLAIN LOCKE'S THEORY OF PERSONAL IDENTITY. IS IT CONVINCING? Locke has three main aims in putting forward his account of personal identity. Firstly to make comprehensible the possibility of resurrection and immortality independently of a commitment to a dualistic metaphysics. Secondly, to give an account which is consistent with the fact that we do have knowledge of our own identities over time. And finally to show that what we did or do cannot be a matter of indifference to us in the way that activities of others can be. The book contains a discussion of what makes someone the same person after a period of time in which they have changed, both bodily and psychologically. In answering this question Locke involves himself in asking three distinct but related questions. What constitutes sameness of substance? What makes someone at a later date the same man? And finally, what makes...
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