By Mohammed Jammaz
01June2009
Personal individualism depends on somebodys shop and some other peoples memories.
The main question is what chance ons yesterday person been the aforementi oned(prenominal) person today? Or what makes the churl been the adult we sympathize know?
Locke answered this by saying its the uniform consciousness s/he had what makes him the same. Locke means by consciousness is the remembrance person had by remembering going to bed tired yesterday or participating in events happened when s/he was a pip-squeak. [Essay II xxvii 10]
Lockes method is a solid one but he has forgotten some thing pregnant which is in our case others memories which affecting persons own memory, ex. When a churl has told a fake story happened to him when s/he was a child and belief that story is actually happened and s/he was there, then what makes different between him and other child who was actually there?! That is the key argument with Ayers philosophy method who insists that other memories is the other factor identifying personal identity. I think Ayers method is much accurate than Lockes because of the example he gave us about the child and also because of others memory which confirming persons memory.
Our own memory is non enough for personal identity but we need others memory to confirm or to know (in case of a child or a person with Alzheimer).
Another method on why we want to identify a person is that because we make our plans according to his expected behavior, and for ourselves to make plans suit us in the in store(predicate), and this is Rortys method about the purpose we need personal identity (Rorty. 1976)
I think we need to identify ourselves to learn from the ancient and to not repeat the same mistakes we did, as well as knowing what we are now and where we are standing in the present time, and finally what should we improve in ourselves in the future and whats our future plan and the way we should be in the future. The same goes to identifying other because we...If you want to get a full essay, straddle it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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