PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Empirical Evidence, Personal Identity, Empiricism
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Personal identity is made possible by self-consciousness. Knowledge originates in our direct sense experience, which acts as final judgment. Empiricist/empiricism; the view that sense experience is the primary source of all knowledge and that only a careful attention to sense experience can enable us to understand the world and achieve accurate conclusions. To discover personal identity, we have to find what it means to be a person. A person is someone who considers itself to be the same thing in different times and different places. Consciousness is what makes possible our belief that we are the same identity in different times and different places. When you think, you are conscious of yourself. A thinking, intelligent being that has the abilities to reason and reflect. Consciousness accompanies thinking and makes possible the concept of a self that remains the same at different times and places.
