Essay Archive - Personal Identity
Personal Identity
Personal Identity can be broken down into three areas: 1.) Body 2.) Memory
and 3.) Soul. In John Perry's "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and
Immortality" these composing aspects of personal identity are discussed at
length. In the reading and class discussions the body was defined clearly as a
part of one's person, even alluded to at times as a "prison" in which one cannot
escape until one dies. Memory and one's Soul seemed to be lumped together many
times, understandably so, for the two bare many things in common such as they
are intangible, cannot be completely ....
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