Identitatea eului
The Identity of the Self

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I will present Nozick's closest continuer theory of personal identity. In the first part, which can be considered as an introduction, I will discuss about his method and about his view on philosophy and I will explain why he thinks that we must prefer the philosophical goal of explanation instead of proof. In the second part, I will present the closest continuer theory, which is formulated by Nozick as a schema that rules our judgments about identity over time, holding that y at t2 is the same individual as x at t1 if and only if, firstly, y's proprieties at t2 stem from or are causally dependent on x's proprieties at t1 and, secondly, there is no other z at t2 that stands in a closer (or as close) relation to x at t1 than y at t2 does. For the closest continuer theory is merely a schema, we need a theory of the self to explain how this schema can be applied to the particular case of personal identity. I will discuss about this problem in the last part of my paper where I present the self-synthesizing view of the self.

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