GERMAN

Person

By Michael Quante

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110907360, 9783110181906
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3122398 bytes)
Pages
235\236
Time added
2023-03-13 14:48:28

Description

The philosophical question of the identity of a person has not been posed precisely enough. Contrary to the term’s use in everyday life, and even within philosophy, the identity of a person is not a unified phenomenon. Rather, the identity of a person has to be analysed in terms of the following questions: What determines the entity of a person? What has to happen so that a person from yesterday is ‘identical’ to the person of today? What do we regard as identity in the sense of self-understanding and self-awareness? This book shows how in our everyday understanding the two ‘identities’ of human persons – persistence and personality – intertwine.

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