Identity

Question 1

What are the various views regarding personal identity versus social identity?

Answer 1

• From Ancient Greece
• The Renaissance
• The Enlightenment
• Modern Individualism

Question 2

The Renaissance

Answer 2

The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which we have laid down. This doctrine appear in the Bible.

Question 3

The Enlightenment

Answer 3

It is from the European cultural history.

Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Will to Power”-A strong-willed person creates his own values and resist from the moral demands of others.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Humanity has no essence (no pre-existing soul)

Descartes: “I think therefore I am”

Question 4

Modernism

Answer 4

The most important fact about you is that you are an individual and that you can decide for yourself what you want in life.

Question 5

What are the three forms of identity? Describe

Answer 5

1) Sincerity: Demands commitment to roles. The outside is real and the inside must be too (if not it is fake).
2) Authenticity: Demands the pursuit of originality. The inside is real and the outside must be an accurate representation.
3) Profilicity: Demands the curation of profiles. The outside is real and the inside must be truly invested in (if not it is fraud).

Question 6

Atman

Answer 6

The eternal self.

There is an afterdeath: new life or paradise/heal

-Hinduism

Question 7

Original sin

Answer 7

(1) the sin of the first human beings, who disobeyed God’s command by choosing to follow their own will and thus lost their original holiness and became subject to death,
(2) the fallen state of human nature that affects every person born into the world

-Christianisme

Question 8

The doctrine of no-soul

Answer 8

• Buddhism

- You are not anything at all

Question 9

What are the different ideas about the persistence of personal identity over time? Describe

Answer 9

• Essentialism: You are the same person over time because your soul is the same over time.
• Reductionism: You are the same person over time because you are physiologically and psychologically related to those previous persons who have been called ‘you’ over time.
• Narrative Identity: You are the same person over time because the story of your life is a sufficiently consistent story from your birth to death.