Personal Identity, the Self, and Ethics

✍ Scribed by Ferdinand Santos, Santiago Sia (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 337
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
The Lockean Account of Person and Personal Identity....Pages 17-45
Personal Identity and the Unity and Uniqueness of the Self....Pages 46-69
Charles Hartshorne’s Critique of the Ontology of Substance....Pages 70-90
The Fallacy of Simple Location and the Ontologies of Substance and Event....Pages 91-114
Methodological Considerations in Hartshorne’s Event Ontology....Pages 115-143
The Structure of an Event as Creative Synthesis....Pages 144-168
Ethics and the Mnemonic Structure of Persons....Pages 169-194
The Social Structure of Persons....Pages 195-219
Conclusion....Pages 220-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-328

✦ Subjects

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