Instructions:
For the assignment, you are writing an essay. Begin your essay with a thorough description of yourself. What features, activities, and relationships are crucial elements of your existence as a person? (Customized: Health=Wealth) Try to include a sampling of all of the different kinds of things without which you could not continue to be who you are. (Customized: Family, God, and Health)
Now, what is it that holds all of these disparate elements together to form a single individual? (Customized: Love) Construct a view of personal identity that explains how you create and preserve a unique personality that persists through all of the experiences in a lifetime. Use philosophical reasoning to defend your position as a coherent and practical view of our lives, showing how it compares with alternative notions. (Customized: Wisdom)
Finally, explain how your position on personal identity fits with a more general account of human nature. Make sure that what you say about this issue is consistent with your resolution of the mind-body problem and your beliefs about the possibility of life after death.
Additional Instructions:
Create a 2 page essay in APA format. Use 2 scholarly sources for references. Be sure to utilize in-text citations.
