PHIL4406 Lecture Notes - Teleportation, Personal Identity, Monism
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Not useful to define the soul because we can never know______ Personal identity is the continuity of life through duration of time. Even if a ship has every single part replaced it is still the starting ship because of the continuity of consciousness. We should punish the person not the physical man. If the man did not have a continuity of consciousness between a wrong doing . then he is not the same m an therefore should not be punished. Hume suggests we re-do language the idea of this--- . Personal identity is a bundled succession of related ideas bundled succession of sub- rileys. The self is a succession like a movie! Nominal self this dne but is what we call the same person. Only one substance exists for spinoza---god or nature/universe. Since god is everything, everything is god, and nothing is special, nothing is god. This follows catholic religion god is everywhere and in everything.
