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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 defined as to what each
exactly is (people remember things that did not actually happen to them, are
those still memories?; do you have one soul throughout your life?), and both
are thought to compose one's character and beliefs. This essay will deal with
the two aspects of one's personal identity which are the most obvious in day to
day life, that of the body and of soul/memory.
As......


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