PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nintendo Power
15 Apr 2017
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The question is a = b (identical?) or not identical. Locke: locke starts by saying one category is substances (god, spirits, simple bodies) All of substances are simple: composite objects. Heaps (if i have a heap of matter sitting somewhere and i take some away, i can say technically its not the same anymore) for most purposes that"s not a practical way of determining anything (ex. Cannot be that strict, if one grain of sugar is taken away it will change the sugar but not that much) There is a certain sympathy we feel for all our parts. Aristotle said we have 3 levels of our soul (reason - humans, locomotive - animals, nutritive - plants) We cannot just say humans are animals because they doing something higher they reason. He thinks that person stands for thinking, intelligent being. You can define a person as a thinker, capable of self-knowledge. Descartes: what i am is a thinking thing ^^
