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Sartre and Our Identity as Individuals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

İlham Dilman
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The question about ‘identity’ under consideration in this paper is different from the one discussed in some of the other papers—for instance by Geoffrey Madell and Lars Herzberg. That question arises from the fact that human beings change in appearance and behaviour in the course of their life. By and large we have no trouble in recognizing them but we may wonder what it is that remains the same in them or about them so that we recognize them, address them by the same name, respond to them as to someone we know. What is it for a person to be the same person through these changes? By virtue of what do we call them by the same name?

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 29 , March 1991 , pp. 245 - 264
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1991

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2 See Sartre, , Esquisse d'une Theorie des Emotions (Paris: Hermann, 1948).Google Scholar

3 See Dilman, , ‘Our Knowledge of Other People’, in Dilman, İlham (ed.), Philosophy and Life, Essays on John Wisdom (The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984).Google Scholar

4 See Dilman, Philosophy and the Philosophic Life, a Study in Plato's Phaedo, Chapter 3 (London: Macmillan, forthcoming).

5 See Bettleheim, Bruno, The Informed Heart (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962).Google Scholar

6 See Dilman, , ‘Self-knowledge and the Reality of Good and Evil’, in Gaita, Raimond (ed.) Value and Understanding (London: Routledge, 1990)Google Scholar and ‘Self-knowledge and the Possibility of Change’, in Mary Bochover (ed.), Rules, Rituals and Responsibility (Illinois: Open Court, forthcoming).