The Soul and Personal Identity. Derek Parfit’s Arguments in the Substance Dualist Perspective

This paper re-evaluates Derek Parfit’s attack on the commonly held view that personal identity is necessarily determinate and that it is what matters. In the first part we first argue against the Humean view of personal identity; secondly, we classify the remaining alternatives into three kinds: the...

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Main Author: Sepetyi Dmytro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-07-01
Series:Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/perc-2017-0007