Parfit D. Personal Identity / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev

Abstract

The article analyzes the question of personal identity. Using the example of Wiggins’s case («operation»), the author criticizes the model of personality proposed by John Locke. The question of the importance of personal identity for survival is raised, the problem itself is viewed as a relation of degree to which identity is not all-ornothing. In the conclusion author made claim about the need to create a new model of personality, as well as a new ethics, based on it

Keywords

• personal identity
• relation
• survival
• memory
• locke
• wiggins’ operation