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'Some Puzzles of Ground', 'Sources of the Self' and 'The Ethics'
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
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The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 2. Ethical Self
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My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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The mind only knows itself by means of ideas of the modification of the body [Spinoza]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Self-knowledge needs perception of the affections of the body [Spinoza]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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The poet who forgot his own tragedies was no longer the same man [Spinoza]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
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I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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A thing is free if it acts by necessity of its own nature, and the act is determined by itself alone [Spinoza]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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An act of will can only occur if it has been caused, which implies a regress of causes [Spinoza]
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'Free will' is a misunderstanding arising from awareness of our actions, but ignorance of their causes [Spinoza]
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Would we die if we lacked free will, and were poised between equal foods? Yes! [Spinoza]
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The mind is not free to remember or forget anything [Spinoza]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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We think we are free because we don't know the causes of our desires and choices [Spinoza]
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The actual world is the only one God could have created [Spinoza]
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