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Ideas for 'The Problem of the Soul', 'Meditations' and 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons
1400 Some cause must unite the separate temporal sections of a person [Descartes]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
5351 We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
1401 Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes]
2299 I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes]
6907 For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
5353 The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan]
5354 We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
5349 For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
2283 Our 'will' just consists of the feeling that when we are motivated to do something, there are no external pressures [Descartes]
5338 Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling [Flanagan]
5344 Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living [Flanagan]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
2282 My capacity to make choices with my free will extends as far as any faculty ever could [Descartes]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
5332 People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this [Flanagan]
5345 We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way [Flanagan]