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'The Discourses', 'Issues of Pragmaticism' and 'Personal Identity and Memory'
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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If memory is the sole criterion of identity, we ought to use it for other people too [Shoemaker]
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Bodily identity is one criterion and memory another, for personal identity [Shoemaker, by PG]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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We make progress when we improve and naturalise our choices, asserting their freedom [Epictetus]
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Freedom is acting by choice, with no constraint possible [Epictetus]
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Freedom is making all things happen by choice, without constraint [Epictetus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
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Zeus gave me a nature which is free (like himself) from all compulsion [Epictetus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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Not even Zeus can control what I choose [Epictetus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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You can fetter my leg, but not even Zeus can control my power of choice [Epictetus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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If we could foresee the future, we should collaborate with disease and death [Epictetus]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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If I know I am fated to be ill, I should want to be ill [Epictetus]
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