PHL100Y1 Lecture 40: 40 Locke
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Ship of theseus example: blah blah blah blah blah, cloning and destruction. What is the criterion for personal identity? (cpi: the necessary and suf cient conditions for identity, particularly in human beings: body, soul, etc. Same-ness, i. e. theseus: continuity of the body, of the soul . Plato and descartes: the cpi is our immaterial soul: the mascot problem. What if every day i went to sleep, a new soul checked in to my body. I have a new person"s soul every day, like a person embodying a mascot: i could have a soul every ve minutes; i just know nothing about my soul, the reincarnation problem. ; objects go through material change every time. Stepping in the same river twice: can you, or can you not? yes you can: a participation in the same continued life by particles united in an organized body. How can we de ne what we know to be a man .
