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Reactions & Debate I: On Schechtman's Person Life View

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BĚLOHRAD Radim

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Ethical Perspectives
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://www.ethical-perspectives.be/page.php?LAN=E&FILE=ep_detail&ID=198&TID=1776
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/ER21.4.3062020
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords personal identity; Person Life View; practical concerns; Schechtman
Description In a recent book, Marya Schechtman argues that people are practical units whose identity is deeply interconnected with our various person-related practical concerns. The Person Life View she develops responds to a number of claims currently accepted by many scholars in the personal identity debate, including the claim that personal identity does not matter in the grounding of our person-related practical concerns, and the claim that individual practical concerns are justified by a number of different relations. Schechtman argues that personal identity does matter and that it grounds all our person-related practical concerns. I will argue that these conclusions are enabled by a series of redefinitions of established concepts made by Schechtman. I will make these redefinitions explicit. I will further argue that the Person Life View has implausible consequences both in personal ontology and in normative guidance.
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