PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Agency
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Diachronicity: i identify myself (the one who is the receiver of my subjective experience) with the human being that i was in the past and that i will be in the future. Form-finding: i seek for coherence, ,unity, and pattern in the temporal sequence events in my life. Stroy-telling: i think of my life in recognizable literary genres. Revision: i distort facts about my life so that they fit the kind of story that i want to tell about myself (444) There is a marked shift on page 447 to a negative evaluation of narrativity. There appears to be some inconsistency between the pre-447 strawson and the post-447. Schechtman is frustrated with the current literature on personal identity because it conflates the following two questions: Reidentification: what makes a person at time t1 the same person as a person at time t2. Characterization which beliefs, values, desires, and other psychological features make someone the person she is.
