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What does it mean to be “oneself” or to be “the same” person? What does being a “person” or a “self” mean? What is “personal identity”? How do these notions relate to ethics? Many, influenced by the postmodernist talk of “the fall of the self,” have sought to show that these questions are unanswerable and even irrelevant. There is a trend to convince us that since there is no self in reality, despite the claims in much of traditional philosophy, we should disregard all talk connected with this illusion and devote our attention elsewhere.
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© 2007 Ferdinand Santos & Santiago Sia
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Santos, F., Sia, S. (2007). Introduction. In: Personal Identity, the Self, and Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590908_1
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