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#741 Marya Schechtman: The Philosophy of the Self and Personal Identity

The Dissenter

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Is the True Self or the Good Self?

Cross-culturally people seem to identify the true self with the best self. When people's values change they become a different person. There has to be some core stability there's some core set of facts that just stays the same and if they change there's some you know essential you even in the Pixar movie inside out there is a story about the core the islands of personality and if they collapse that's it you're someone else.

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