{"id":2902,"date":"2020-09-15T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/guilt-and-personal-identity\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:27:10","slug":"guilt-and-personal-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/guilt-and-personal-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt and Personal Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Can I assuage my feelings of guilt over a long past misdeed by telling myself that I was a different person then?&#0160; Not very well.&#0160; I was different all right, but <em>not numerically<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One could try to soften strict numerical identity of a person over time by adopting a bundle theory of diachronic personal identity.&#0160; (Roughly, a person at a time is a bundle of mental data; a person over time is a bundle of these bundles.)&#0160; But even if such a theory were otherwise in the clear it is difficult to square such a theory with what appears to be a non-negotiable datum:&#0160; I and no one else did such-and-such 30, 40, 50 years ago; I am the source of that misdeed; I could have, and should have, done otherwise.&#0160; We convict ourselves in memory knowing that the one who remembers is strictly the same as the one who did the deed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The mystery of the self!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I assuage my feelings of guilt over a long past misdeed by telling myself that I was a different person then?&#0160; Not very well.&#0160; I was different all right, but not numerically. One could try to soften strict numerical identity of a person over time by adopting a bundle theory of diachronic personal identity.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/guilt-and-personal-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guilt and Personal Identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}