PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Identity, Atomism, Gulfstream Iv
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And not only his body, for the same thing happens to his soul. And neither his manners, nor his dispositions, nor his thoughts, nor his desires, nor his pleasures, nor his sufferings, not his fears are the same throughout his life . Sameness: qualitative sameness/ identity: not qualitatively the same as myself 10-20 years ago, ex. Hair color, amount of hair: numerical sameness/ identity. John locke on personal identity (1689: persons vs. human beings. Identity is relative (to classification: memory criterion for personal identity. Man human being vs. person: human being. : is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider: person itself as itself (39, (c)onsciousness always accompanies thinking, and it is that which makes everyone to be what he calls self (39) Consciousness is that which makes everyone to be what he calls self".
