" A person has a body ". " A person is a body ". Which of these statements more accurately expresses the truth about personal identity?
Date Submitted: 02/18/2001 11:18:42
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (944 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (944 words)
" A person has a body ". " A person is a body ". Which of
these statements more accurately expresses the truth about
personal identity?
When considering the content of the question there are two
questions which must be considered before an adequate conclusion can be
found; what really and fundamentally identifies and distinguishes persons
at a single time and what enables us to reidentify them over time? The
second question of course deals with how people change …
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…solution. I would like to think that a persons character or
psychological identity as well as his body or his physical identity make up
his identity as a whole and changes to each would both affect his identity
as a whole. However if asked to chose which is more accurate I think that
the mind is more important than the body and would agree that " a person
has a body " would be the most accurate.
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