HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques Derrida
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John locke: the basis of personal identity: memory is the basis of our personal identity. I know who i am because i remembered what i did. The internal identity is generated from our memory and external identity is forced or brought upon on us. Is it therefore a combo of both that defines our identity or one of them the desire to belong, nothing has meaning if we take ourselves out of it. Historical production cultural memory and group identity collective memory selves in the group the inside and the outside. The individual and the collective act simultaneously. A very sweet old man picture smart dude. Synchronic identity ( connects us with others) Contextual identity ( identity created by appearance, appropriate at certain times) What price identity the myth of identity loss shared identity. Murder by miniaturization religious warfare (crusades, 30 years war, nigerian war fought between. Mary wollstonecraft (spoke out against violence against women)