Parfits View of Personal Identity and Human Behavior
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The implications of Parfit's concept of persons
- Substantive self and human behavior
- The fear of death
- The case of our prison system
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
I intend to explicate Derek parfit's view regarding personal identity as nothing more than non-branching psychological continuity. I will be brief in my discussion to avoid redundancy, as I have more deeply explicated parfit's infamous view in my previous paper, "parfit's view of personal identity." Further, I will discuss the vast implications of parfit's view of persons as a series of psychologically continuous selves related by differing degrees of psychological connectedness. I will defend parfit's identification of psychological continuity as the criterion for personal identity. However, in defending the basic theory, I will argue that the psychologically continuous successive selves that constitute a person will typically never be as distantly related as parfit implies. Therefore, I will argue further that the prevailing beliefs of persons that parfit himself identifies as susceptible to his view are in fact mostly compatible with his view, and therefore, additional evidence for a Parfitian view of personal identity.
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