Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Plutarch, Augustine and Joseph Butler
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
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Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / c. Self as brain controller
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Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Without memory I could not even speak of myself [Augustine]
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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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Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler]
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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 / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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If the future does not exist, how can prophets see it? [Augustine]
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