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Single Idea 6669
[filed under theme 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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Full Idea
According to 'animalism', I existed before I was a person and I may well go one existing for some time after I cease to be a person; hence, I am not essentially a person, but a human organism.
Gist of Idea
For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person
Source
report of Eric T. Olson (The Human Animal [1997]) by E.J. Lowe - Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind Ch.10
Book Ref
Lowe,E.J.: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [CUP 2000], p.284
A Reaction
There is a very real sense in which an extremely senile person has 'ceased to exist' (e.g. as the person I used to love). On the whole, though, I think that Olson is right, and yet 'person' is an important concept. Neither concept is all-or-nothing.
The
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[a body is necessary for a sef]:
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4836
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The mind only knows itself by means of ideas of the modification of the body
[Spinoza]
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5583
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We need an account of the self based on rational principles, to avoid materialism
[Kant]
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20757
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The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body
[Nietzsche]
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15583
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Certainty that I will die is more basic to my existence than the Cogito
[Heidegger]
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23747
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What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being
[Weil]
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5324
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Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity
[Ayer]
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5668
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People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body
[Ayer]
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5173
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Two experiences belong to one self if their contents belong with one body
[Ayer]
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5176
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Empiricists can define personal identity as bodily identity, which consists of sense-contents
[Ayer]
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9263
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A person is an entity to which we can ascribe predicates of consciousness and corporeality
[Strawson,P]
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5673
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If we have a pain, we are strongly aware of the bodily self
[Cassam]
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16236
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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons
[Olson, by Hawley]
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6669
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For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person
[Olson, by Lowe]
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4936
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The self is founded on bodily awareness centred in the brain stem
[Edelman/Tononi]
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6144
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You hold a child in your arms, so it is not mental substance, or mental state, or software
[Merricks]
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