Monday, September 9, 2013

Parfit: Identity vs. Survival

Parfit attempts to clarify debates about personal identity by introducing a distinction between identity and survival.  Although traditional theories about what a person is focus on identity, Parfit says that concerns about being the same person as myself are actually concerns about survival.

Follow this link to read another blog post where I discuss this distinction in some detail.

This is another link to a blog post about the contrast between Locke and Parfit

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