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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
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For Stoics the true self is defined by what I can be master of [Stoic school, by Foucault]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
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We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
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The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan]
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We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan]
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Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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Stoics expanded the idea of compulsion, and contracted what counts as one's own actions [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan]
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We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan]
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The free will problem was invented by the Stoics [Stoic school, by Berlin]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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The nearest to ancient determinism is Stoic fate, but that is controlled by a sympathetic God [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
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