Category: Persons
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Do We Love the Person or Only Her Attributes?
Substack latest. Gleanings from a passage from Pascal. This supplements and deepens the recent discussion of subjective and objective views of death.
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The Relative Unreality of Social Transactions
An excerpt from a journal entry dated 21 July 1985 followed by a comment. There is often little or no personal reality in human relationships. They are often nothing more than formulaic transactions. When I saw C.T.K. on Friday I told him, sincerely, that he looked good, healthy. He felt obliged to return the compliment…
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Death, Consolation, and ‘Life Goes On’
Transhumanist fantasies aside, we will all die. Faced with the inevitable, one naturally looks for consolation. Some console themselves with the thought that 'life goes on.' In the words of the great Laura Nyro song, And When I Die: And when I dieAnd when I'm goneThere'll be one child born in this worldTo carry on,…
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Potentiality and the Substance View of Persons
Here at MavPhil Strictly Philosophical