Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Butler and Immanuel Kant
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
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I can only determine my existence in time via external things [Kant]
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As balls communicate motion, so substances could communicate consciousness, but not retain identity [Kant]
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Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
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For Kant the self is a purely formal idea, not a substance [Kant, by Lockwood]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self
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If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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Mental representations would not be mine if they did not belong to a unified self-consciousness [Kant]
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