Person

The philosophical question of a person´s identity has not been well resolved. Contrary to the term´s use in everyday life, and even within philosophy, identity is not a unified phenomenon. Rather, the identity of an individual has to be analysed by answering the following questions:

What determines the entity of an individual? What has to happen so that an individual from yesterday is ´;identical´ to the individual of today? What do we regard as identity in the sense of self-understanding and self-awareness? This book shows how in our everyday life the two ´;identities´ of human individuals – persistence and personality – intertwine.