Personal Identity

A Personal Identity is a self identity that comprises an individual's unique and persistent personal characteristics over time.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) maintain Self Continuity through temporal persistence.
  • It can (typically) define Individual Uniqueness through distinguishing traits.
  • It can (typically) integrate Life Experiences through personal narrative.
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  • It can (often) shape Personal Decisions through value systems.
  • It can (often) influence Self Perception through identity beliefs.
  • It can (often) guide Individual Behavior through personal principles.
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  • It can range from being a Stable Personal Identity to being a Changing Personal Identity, depending on its temporal dynamic.
  • It can range from being a Core Personal Identity to being a Peripheral Personal Identity, depending on its identity centrality.
  • It can range from being a Conscious Personal Identity to being an Unconscious Personal Identity, depending on its awareness level.
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• Examples:
  • Psychological Identitys (to maintain mental continuity), such as:
    • Character Identitys (to express personal traits), such as:
      • Personality Patterns like showing consistent behaviors.
      • Value Systems like maintaining ethical principles.
  • Experiential Identitys (to integrate life experiences), such as:
    • Biographical Identitys (to construct life narratives), such as:
      • Memory Patterns like maintaining personal history.
      • Life Storys like creating self narratives.
  • Physical Identitys (to recognize bodily continuity), such as:
    • Bodily Identitys (to maintain physical self), such as:
      • Appearance Patterns like recognizing physical features.
      • Biological Continuity like tracking bodily changes.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Social Identity, which depends on group membership.
  • Collective Identity, which emerges from shared characteristics.
  • Role Identity, which derives from social positions.
  • Legal Identity, which focuses on formal identification.
• See: Person, Identification Document, De-Identification, Self Concept, Individual, Personal Development, Identity Formation, Psychological Continuity, Self Understanding, Personal Growth.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity Retrieved:2024-11-27.
  • Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time. Discussions regarding personal identity typically aim to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the person, persisting through time. In philosophy, the problem of personal identity is concerned with how one is able to identify a single person over a time interval, dealing with such questions as, "What makes it true that a person at one time is the same thing as a person at another time?" or "What kinds of things are we persons?" In contemporary metaphysics, the matter of personal identity is referred to as the diachronic problem of personal identity. The synchronic problem concerns the question of what features and traits characterize a person at a given time. Analytic philosophy and continental philosophy both inquire about the nature of identity. Continental philosophy deals with conceptually maintaining identity when confronted by different philosophic propositions, postulates, and presuppositions about the world and its nature.

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity Retrieved:2019-11-15.
  • In philosophy, the matter of personal identity deals with such questions as, "What makes it true that a person at one time is the same thing as a person at another time?" or "What kinds of things are we persons?" Generally, personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person in the course of time. That is, the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the person, persisting through time. In contemporary metaphysics, the matter of personal identity is referred to as the diachronic problem of personal identity. The synchronic problem concerns the question of what features and traits characterize a person at a given time. In continental philosophy and in analytic philosophy, enquiry to the nature of Identity is common. Continental philosophy deals with conceptually maintaining identity when confronted by different philosophic propositions, postulates, and presuppositions about the world and its nature.

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