Today in class we discussed about the self identity. We focused more on the philosophers and how they defined and argued about ones identity. One philosopher that stood out to me was Descartes, I guess this was because this is the philosopher who i read about the most. Descartes said that our mind was ones identity. The body had nothing to do with how someone descibes one self.
Well i started to think that Descartes is sort of right in a way. I say this because does our body, our apperance really describe a person.? I dont think so. It is all about what is inside, how a person thinks, feels about certain things. So basically Descartes is right in that way. Our conscious descibes who we really are.
Well then the argument was made in class about the body. well in my opinion we dont know that our body is really here. We can be imagining it. We can doubt literally everything so thats why i started doubting if our body is really here. People could be just imagining differents ways a body is supposed to look like. Well that is just what i think. What do you think?
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I believe with some that you say but then some I don't. I remember Shannon saying that since Decartes believed that all we have is our mind, that we can be making up what is around us, such as our body. This got me thinking that, well, I guess that is a good point. How do we know we have a body and it isn't just our mind making it up? We don't of course. Then there is Plato. He says that we use our body as a tool. We don't necessarily need it, but it helps us. He believes the mind and body are two different things. I don't know..they both sound reasonable!
I actually feel that out of all the philosophers' ideas on "self" I agree with Descartes the least. This is because I feel that our self depends on what experiences we had. We would really know anything about ourself other then that we doubt If Descartes' theory is right. I see self Identity as not just a thing like our mind, but a description or something we can describe and see.
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