I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics (Synthese Library Book 325) 2004th Edition by Daniel Kolak (PDF)

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Borders enclose and separate us. We assign to them tremendous significance. Along them we draw supposedly uncrossable boundaries within which we believe our individual identities begin and end, erecting the metaphysical dividing walls that enclose each one of us into numerically identical, numerically distinct, entities: persons. Do the borders between us – physical, psychological, neurological, causal, spatial, temporal, etc. – merit the metaphysical significance ordinarily accorded them? The central thesis of I Am You is that our borders do not signify boundaries between persons. We are all the same person. Variations on this heretical theme have been voiced periodically throughout the ages (the Upanishads, Averroës, Giordano Bruno, Josiah Royce, Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Freeman Dyson). In presenting his arguments, the author relies on detailed analyses of recent formal work on personal identity, especially that of Derek Parfit, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert Nozick, David Wiggins, Daniel C. Dennett and Thomas Nagel, while incorporating the views of Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Kant, Husserl and Brouwer. His development of the implied moral theory is inspired by, and draws on, Rawls, Sidgwick, Kant and again Parfit. The traditional, commonsense view that we are each a separate person numerically identical to ourselves over time, i.e., that personal identity is closed under known individuating and identifying borders – what the author calls Closed Individualism – is shown to be incoherent. The demonstration that personal identity is not closed but open points collectively in one of two new directions: either there are no continuously existing, self-identical persons over time in the sense ordinarily understood – the sort of view developed by philosophers as diverse as Buddha, Hume and most recently Derek Parfit, what the author calls Empty Individualism – or else you are everyone, i.e., personal identity is not closed under known individuating and identifying borders, what the author calls Open Individualism. In making his case, the author: – offers a new explanation both of consciousness and of self-consciousness – constructs a new theory of Self – explains psychopathologies (e.g. multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia) – shows Open Individualism to be the best competing explanation of who we are – provides the metaphysical foundations for global ethics. The book is intended for philosophers and the philosophically inclined – physicists, mathematicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, economists, and communication theorists. It is accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

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⭐Daniel Kolak’s work is deeply researched and sophisticated. He guides his readers to the Open View of Personal Identity by dissolving barriers, which seem to imply that I-am-not-you.This book is amazingly comprehensive albeit intimidating in its length and price. It is well worth your investment. What you invest you will get in return because of the truth that “I Am You.”The hatred in the world today is a self-inflicted wound.We all know this to be true.How do we know?Perhaps we already know this not because of some convoluted calculus that ties us together because I-am-not-you, but instead perhaps we know this because of the already operational reality of the fact that I Am You.I highly recommend undertaking the work of understanding Kolak’s Open View of Personal Identity.If you conscientiously read Kolak’s work you will discover the peace that is already embedded in your identity.

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