PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Personal Identity
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Audio recording started: 10:09 am january 24, 2017. Paper - explain locke"s view on personal identity; address some questions and the final question is make your own point. Locke: easy for god created spirits and atoms; he thinks none of these three has parts; Identity overtime (versus identity at a time - individualism) Identity conditions depend on what kind of entity we"re discussing. Chunk of matter; none of the part is taken and if you add something it is still the same chunk of matter. Living beings - constituted by same bodily organization, organisms (+artifact); he can look in two ways. One way is human being is a soul (found in plato, descartes"; locke refuses plato imagine soul migrates to animal (pig). Aristotle defines human being as a rational animal. The story of the parrot denies aristotle"s view on human is rational. Locke"s view human is human with particular kind of bodies.
