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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 / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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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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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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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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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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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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Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
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When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
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Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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