Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Anaximander, Aristotle and Ren Descartes
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons
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Some cause must unite the separate temporal sections of a person [Descartes]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical
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I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
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The nature of all animate things is to have one part which rules it [Aristotle]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self
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Is Socrates the same person when standing and when seated? [Aristotle]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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It would seem that the thinking part is the individual self [Aristotle]
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Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes]
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I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes]
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For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
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In thinking we shut ourselves off from other substances, showing our identity and separateness [Descartes]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Aristotle never discusses free will [Aristotle, by MacIntyre]
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For an action to be 'free', it must be deliberate as well as unconstrained [Aristotle, by Leibniz]
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Our 'will' just consists of the feeling that when we are motivated to do something, there are no external pressures [Descartes]
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Our free will is so self-evident to us that it must be a basic innate idea [Descartes]
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A human being fathers his own actions as he fathers his children [Aristotle]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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The more reasons that compel me, the freer I am [Descartes]
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A man is the cause of what is within his power, and what he causes is in his power [Aristotle]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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Only a human being can be a starting point for an action [Aristotle]
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My capacity to make choices with my free will extends as far as any faculty ever could [Descartes]
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We have inner awareness of our freedom [Descartes]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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Aristotle assesses whether people are responsible, and if they are it was voluntary [Aristotle, by Zagzebski]
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