Personale Identität, Vierdimensionalismus und unsere eigene Identität
In my essay I discuss the question whether there are necessary and sufficient informative conditions of personal identity and how possible answers might look like. I argue that fourdimensionalism is the most promising approach in reducing personal identity to bodily or psychological relations. I pro...
| Subtitles: | Christliches Menschenbild und Naturalismus$dPhilosophische Standortbestimmungen |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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2011
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2011, Volume: 133, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 321-339 |
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| Summary: | In my essay I discuss the question whether there are necessary and sufficient informative conditions of personal identity and how possible answers might look like. I argue that fourdimensionalism is the most promising approach in reducing personal identity to bodily or psychological relations. I provide an argument against the reduceability of personal identity to other relations. It Starts with what it means for us pre-theoretically to be identical over time and proceeds to the conclusion that a complété description of the world that does not include me cannot entail the fact whether I am identical over time or not. From this follows that every description of the world that entails my identity must also entail me as part of that description and thus must remain uninformative. Finally, 1 will discuss ontological implications of this insight. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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