Personal Identity
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can be broken down into three areas: 1.) Body 2.) Memory
and 3.) Soul. In John Perry's "A Dialogue on and
Immortality" these composing aspects of are discussed at
length. In the reading and class discussions the body was defined clearly as a
part of one's person, even alluded to at times as a ....
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.... body and soul, however, also share this trait. Perry illustrates in his
essay that the body and soul are similar because there is a "link" between one
another, that is they both make up a person and are responsible for the
qualities associated with being an individual (height, weight, character, belief,
etc.). Perry also comes back to challenge this using the analogy of a river.
If one goes to a river, and then the next day goes back to the same river, the
person will not say that it i ....
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