Am I Me Or Am I Someone Else? Essay -- Psychology, Personality

Who am I? What blades me who I am? My friends would probably say that its my genuine nature and compassion that make me who I am. They might as well say that I find ways to create my identity without in time trying and that I make my own path with my morals as a guide. Id probably say its my chivalrous good looks, wit, and charm. My experiences, my parents, and my surroundings, have all contri preciselyed to establishing my identity. In Derek Parfits writings Reasons and Persons and individual(prenominal) Identity, he discusses his bases on what would matter most, personal identity or pick, and he trains that it is endurance, rather than personal identity that matters. Where Parfit expresses this view, this is where I disagree. I retrieve that where survival is there must be personal identity. Both should go croak in hand and there is more to personal identity than mental/bodily continuity. I believe to an extent that Parfit is right in claiming that survival is what matt ers, overall it is better to be surviving than physically dead but if your personal identity is g mavin, doesnt that make you dead as a person and a new person is in your place?In an article, Derek Parfit argues is that The real reason seems to me now this. Does personal identity just rest in bodily and psychological continuity, or is it a further fact, commutative of the facts about these continuities? Our reactions to the problem cases show, I believe, that we believe the latter. And we seem inclined to believe that this further fact is peculiarly deep and is all-or-nothing---we believe that in both describable case, it must hold completely or not at all. My main claim is the denial of this further fact (Robinson).In Reasons and Persons, Parfit makes the claim that pe... ...ontinuous with me is what is important. For me to survive, in the way that matters to Parfit, means that it is sufficiency for someone to inherit enough of my psychological attributes. If two or more peopl e inherit my attributes, that is virtually as good as ordinary survival. Although, I would argue that this idea of being the same person is what matters in survival/continued existence. When one is divided, they cease to be. Even though they have remnants of the past them, that doesnt make it them.Works CitedFumerton, Richard, and Diane Jeske. Introducing philosophical system Through Film Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections Paperback. Print. Parfit, Derek. individual(prenominal) Identity. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Jan.,197) pp. 3-27. Robinson, John. Personal Identity and Survival. The Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 85, No. 6 (Jun., 1988), pp. 319-328