Philosophy

Personal identity

Mind/body Problem

Ethics

Ancient Greek Though

In philosophy, the question what makes up a person's identity is constantly asked, and explained by different people and their philosophies.

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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.

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.

Descartes

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1) Descartes reunites his ideas into things that he knows for sure.

2) He realizes we do not know much for sure, but: We are alive, we have the ability to think which was given to us by the heavens, and our senses have confessed us before so we no longer can trust them.

The Evil Demon: Is responsible for discieving our senses.

Metaethics


Applied ethics


Normative Ethics

Normative Ethics: Is a branch of ethics that judge the way we should live.

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All about decisions

Virtue Ethics: There are virtues or traits that makes up a good human being, we must find what those virtues are and follow them.

Consequentialism: The consequence of one's actions are the basis on deciding if its a good or bad idea.

Deontology: We have certain models and obligations we must follow

The basis of Ancient Greek though are:

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Ethical tradition on though

Science and empirical though

He was interested in categorizing living things

He represented

idealism

mysticism

speculation

Analyzed the impact of religion

believes surrounding greek gods

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.

Descartes was rationalist: The opposite theory of empiricists, they believed that knowledge comes from though and rationalization

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?

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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.