PHILOS 2465 Study Guide - Final Guide: Deontological Ethics, Bad Life, Consequentialism
5 Oct 2018
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Conditions of being a person: person stages, temporal limitations, experience (of all kinds, feelings/emotions, consciousness. According to the definition of a perso(cid:374) that (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith (cid:894)(cid:373)ake sure (cid:455)ou know what that is! A human can fail to be a person either if they fail to possess person stages and/or (more often) lack relationships between their person stages. Some examples of these types of humans a(cid:396)e : brain-dead individual, early-stage fetus (pre-experience, pre-pain, pre-mental state phase, persisted vegetative state. Individual in coma (with complete break and no continuity between person stages) It is metaphysically impossible for two different individuals to share the same life. As discussed, the only way for two individuals to share the exact same life is for them to be, in reality, the same individual at the same time. For two or more individuals to share the same life, they would both need to come into existence at the same time.
