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Philosophy (Ethics (Felicific Calculus (Actions add up into building a…
Philosophy
Ethics
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Felicific Calculus
Actions add up into building a person's happiness or misery. This calculus gives an estimation to weather that feeling is potent enough to be felt again
Intensity, Duration, Certainty, Propinquity, Fecundity, purity, and extend.
Personal identity
In philosophy, the question what makes up a person's identity is constantly asked, and explained by different people and their philosophies.
John Locke: Locke studies the human mind philosophy and our consciousness. He says that the consciousness is related to our memory and it is the ability of an animal to be able to think on thinking, and relate the difference between now and then.
Locke and Empiricism: He believes that knowledge comes from experiences and we know experience due to our memory.
Descartes was rationalist: The opposite theory of empiricists, they believed that knowledge comes from though and rationalization
Identity: According to Lock, a person's identity is the sum of his/ her's experiences plus the present counciousness that determines who we are and why we are so different from everyone else.
Dennet, Where am I?
This fictional text is about this man who is undergoing a medical procedure in which requieres for him to remove his brain, that will function from a distance to control his body. Where is Dannet? is he where his brain is or where his body is?
Mind/body Problem
Descartes
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Meditations
A psychological process descartes used to gain knowledge on who he is, what is the essence of life. He though all the things he believes exists and what is their reason, he also analyzed the essence of identity and dualism.
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