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Personal Identity: Philosophical Views
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Alan Watts once said, "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite
your own teeth." The task of personal identity is to define a quality of a
human which makes him or her a unique self. The person whose identity is in
question must realize themselves, and other people must identify this pe ....
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.... theory alone cannot be considered
a necessary and sufficient definition when defining personal identity.
Another common theory of personal identity is the soul theory. This
theory is: a person is has personal identity if and only if they have the same
soul. The problem with this theory is arrived from the definition of a soul.
Soul is a very difficult term. It is thought by many to be a spirit that passes
from your body into another realm (i.e., heaven, hell, etc.). However, since no
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