PP111 Lecture Notes - Atomism, Materialism
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Two views about change and sameness ( identity ): change requires that something become different than it was; but difference is the opposite of sameness; so nothing can change and still be the same. Nothing stays the same [materialism heraclitus] -> atomism (democritus) Nothing changes [idealism parmenides] -> plato: things can undergo some changes . The soul is the very likeness of the divine, and immortal, and intellectual, and uniform, and indissoluble, and unchangeable . And the body is the very likeness of the human, and mortal, and unintellectual, and multiform, and dissoluble, and changeable. Given the many changes we undergo during our lives, what makes each of us numerically the same persons for the duration of our lives: changes, bodily changes, psychological changes, sameness, qualitative sameness / identity, numerical sameness / identity. Consciousness: this is locke"s term for our awareness of our own thoughts and perceptions.
