Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Mohammed, Plato and Owen Flanagan

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical

276	My individuality is my soul, which carries my body around [Plato]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self

364	One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another [Plato]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

5351	We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate

180	We call a person the same throughout life, but all their attributes change [Plato]

181	Only the gods stay unchanged; we replace our losses with similar acquisitions [Plato]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self

5353	The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan]

5354	We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5349	For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

5338	Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan]

5344	Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

5332	People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan]

5345	We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

330	No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose [Plato]