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Aug 20, 2002 · Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.
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Mar 27, 2001 · Unified consciousness of self has been argued to have some very special properties, for example that the reference to oneself as oneself by which one achieves consciousness of oneself as subject must be indexical and cannot make use of ‘identification’ (Castañeda 1966; Shoemaker 1968; Perry 1979).
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Jul 26, 2004 · As this definition makes clear, consciousness being unified is more than just being one state of consciousness. Unified consciousness is not just singular, it is unified. Kant placed great emphasis on the unity of consciousness, both positively and negatively.
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For Merleau-Ponty, this unified experience of your self is the paradigm or model you should use to understand your nature. Phenomenologists do not assume that there are more “fundamental” levels of reality beyond that of conscious human experience.
Kant does not just stress the unity of apperception or self-consciousness, but the “transcendental unity of apperception” (e.g., A108, A116, B132). “Transcendental” is a complex concept for Kant, but two meanings are especially relevant for the unity of self-consciousness.
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Learning Objectives. By the end of this section, you will be able to: Apply the dilemma of persistence to self and identity. Outline Western and Eastern theological views of self. Describe secular views of the self. Describe the mind-body problem.