The Identities of Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Identities of Persons write by Amélie Rorty. This book was released on 1976-11-15. The Identities of Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)
Holding and Letting Go
Holding and Letting Go - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holding and Letting Go write by Hilde Lindemann. This book was released on 2016. Holding and Letting Go available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our identities give us our sense of how to act and how to treat others, and that the ways in which we we hold each other in them is of crucial moral importance.
The Identities of Persons
The Identities of Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Identities of Persons write by Amélie Rorty. This book was released on 1976. The Identities of Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in "Personal Identity," edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)
Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reasons and Persons write by Derek Parfit. This book was released on 1986-01-23. Reasons and Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.
Staying Alive
Staying Alive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staying Alive write by Marya Schechtman. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Staying Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear just how to express this relation between facts about personal identity and practical interests in a philosophical account of personal identity. A natural thought is that whatever relation is proposed as the one which constitutes the sameness of a person must be important to us in just the way identity is. This simple understanding of the connection between personal identity and practical concerns has serious difficulties, however. One is that the relations that underlie our practical judgments do not seem suited to providing a metaphysical account of the basic, literal continuation of an entity. Another is that the practical interests we associate with identity are many and varied and it seems impossible that a single relation could simultaneously capture what is necessary and sufficient for all of them. Staying Alive offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests which allows us to overcome these difficulties and to offer a view in which the most basic and literal facts about personal identity are inherently connected to practical concerns. This account, the 'Person Life View', sees persons as unified loci of practical interaction, and defines the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life made up of dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social attributes and functions mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.
