Lectures (Video)
- 1. Course introduction
- 2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
- 3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
- 4. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II: Introduction to Plato's Phaedo
- 5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
- 6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV: Plato, Part I
- 7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
- 8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- 9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- 10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
- 11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
- 12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
- 13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
- 14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
- 15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
- 16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
- 17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
- 18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
- 19. Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
- 20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
- 21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II
- 22. Fear of death
- 23. How to live given the certainty of death
- 24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
- 25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
- 26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
Death - Lecture 11
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Lecture 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
wo more views regarding the metaphysical key to personal identity are discussed: the body view and the personality view. According to the body view, an individual is identified in terms of his or her physical body. According to the personality view, an individual is identified by his or her unique set of beliefs, desires, memories, goals, and so on.
Prof. Shelly Kagan
PHIL 176 Death, Spring, 2007 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-01-01 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
