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Personal Identity
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can be broken down into three areas: 1.) Body 2.) Memory
and 3.) Soul. In John Perry's "A Dialogue on and
Immortality" these composing aspects of are discussed at
length. In the reading and class discussions the body was defined clearly as a
part of one's person, even alluded to at times as a ....
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.... still the same person at adulthood, even though the the persons
beliefs, knowledge, and character may have changed over the years. Perry
answers this problem by saying that we can still regard the person as the same
by the relative "similarity" of the person to how they were in the past, and
that "[the] sameness of body is a reliable sign of sameness of all; of soul" .
In another example, Perry differentiates between the body and the soul by saying
that "personal identity" (referring to the so.... |
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