Humanities 1020 Study Guide Chapter 15-17. Identify each in complete sentences: 1. Council of Trent The main principal of the counter reformation, the Council of Trent was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most regal councils 2.…
In Brison 's account of personal identity, she offers it from a perspective most of us can not; a perspective from trauma. In her post modern view she objects to traditional beliefs of personal identity. I will state the traditional view, and then why Brison objects to it. After that I will raise a possible objection to Brisons arguments, and defend her Criticism of the traditional belief. The first traditional belief that is challenged by Brison is that philosophy is to be clean, and controllable.…
McCandless’s Identity Crisis Identities provide the personal cornerstone for people. Under pressure, however, the cornerstone fractures and a new cornerstone displaces the crumbling cornerstone. Cornerstones develop similarly to identities for they both change under pressure. An identity, however, changes with experience.…
1. According to Hall, identity is a “production,” which is an ongoing process, and “always constituted within, not outside, representation” (94). Identity is a production; it is not only about “being” someone but also about “becoming” someone. The practices of representation indicate that one’s identity depends on his/her views as well as others’ views on himself/herself. One’s identity can be shaped through positioning it in a common history as well as a unique personal experience.…
John Locke opposes Rene Descartes principle of nature, and speaks about “consciousness”, and not the same as either mind or the body. Locke mentions “identity” as the continuity of the memory-the continuity of memory means that a person at one time is the very same person as a person at a later time. 3. Immanuel Kant notion of the “human mind”, which on one hand there is empirical psychology and Transcendental Ego.…
HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE YOU A KILLER? One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100K in cash. The only condition is that if you do, someone will die. The twist is, that person has killed before. Would you take the money?…
Thus, theories of personal identity attempt to answer the question of personal identity by giving examples…
Hume Paper David Hume presents two important theories on moral responsibility and personal identity. In his theory of moral responsibility, he states that sometimes people are responsible for their actions and sometimes they are not; it depends if their actions are caused by a person’s character. In his theory of personal identity, he argues that the idea of self does not persist over time, therefore someone cannot be held responsible for their past actions since they are always changing. While these theories may look like they are incompatible, they are compatible.…
This essay will go over the works of John Locke, considered to be the first philosopher to give a theorem in regards to personal identity, Thomas Reid, who created the common sense philosophy, and his contemporary, David Hume, who contributes to Personal Identity with both impressions and perceptions. It is in my view, that David Hume’s theory of Personal Identity is the best answer to the question of personal…
In John Perry’s “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality,” there are many arguments that discuss the criterion of personal identity. Within The First Night, Gretchen Weirob and Sam Miller begin to discuss the idea of an immaterial soul and its reasonability of existence, which is the main idea. Miller discusses the various reasons why an immaterial soul exists while Weirob argues its existence and eventually, its relevance. Throughout the dialogue, Miller introduces various theories to support the idea of an immaterial soul and its use of allowing the survival of a person after death. His main theory represents the principle of “Same body, same self” (Perry, 325) otherwise discussed as “same body, same soul.”…
John Locke believes that personal identity across time involves and relies on identity of consciousness. Locke’s view explains the continuation of consciousness across all personal states, such as living or dreaming, while also managing to persist across time. In his examination of personal identity, Locke analyzes the close connection between consciousness and the concept of a person. He judges that two or more substances may be considered to be the same person if they share and partake in an identical, same consciousness. It is not true, according to Locke, that personal identity across time is reliant on the identity of the substance of a mind, soul or body.…
John Locke is a modern philosopher whose theory is that your experiences you have make you the individual you are today. People who have positive experiences in their life become better people. As we create memories in our life it helps shape who we are today. Locke’s philosophy is correct because people who have positive memories tend to be more happy while people who have negative memories tend to be less happier. People who create negative memories will end up being a troublemaker while people who create positive memories will end up being a peacemaker.…
John Locke born on August 29, 1632, was an English philosopher who is well known for his theory of mind. In Chapter XXVII: Identity and Diversity, John Locke begins by saying that we only have ideas of three substances which are God, finite intelligence, and bodies. John Locke then goes on to state that personal identity also has to to do with the the string of consciousness and has nothing to do with remaining the same substance or matter which is either physical or mental. John Locke states, “When we consider something as existing at a given time and place and compare it with itself existing at another time, we are led to form the ideas of identity and diversity” (112).…
Furthermore, she suggests that the notion of personal identity is dramatically different in non – Westerns societies and that in some cultures the concept of “self” as described by Western theorists may not exist at all. Billington (1998) explains that issue by first addressing several main points of the Western interpretation of personal identity. First, she refers to the classical understanding of individualism in England – an independent aspiration from private ownership, particularly for a household, which represents the personal autonomy of a person. Afterward, the author traces individualism back to the emergence of Christianity – individual faith prearranged the later attention to the person’s distinctive characteristic in the seventeenth century liberal…