PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 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, materialism (heraclitus): nothing stays the same. Idealism (parmenides): nothing changes: things can undergo some changes and still remain the same, provided that those are insignificant and gradual, plato on body and soul (p. 34) And neither his manners, nor his dispositions, nor his thoughts, nor his desires, nor his pleasures, nor his sufferings, nor his fears are the same throughout his life. 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. John locke"s definitions: human being is the species, person is someone who is able to be aware of its surroundings, conscious.
