PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Personal Identity, Nonperson, Ship Of Theseus (Film)
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With this idea: what is it for person-stage p1 to be a stage of the same person as person-stage. Personal identity: the question of what it is to be a person, can be asked in a few different ways. In a synchronic sense (at a certain time)? (what makes a thing that thing) Diachronic question of personal identity (145): person stage p1 is a stage of the same person as person-stage p2 if and only if . Brand new, just leaving the dock for its maiden voyage; Ship of theseus example (to illustrate diachronic identity) Person: it exists and has intelligence and rational capacities. We can have human non=persons and non=person humans. Ex: infant might not count as a person. Ex: parrot might count as a non-human person. A thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places.
