Tag: Personal Identity
Chapter 23 – Why The Good Place Must treat Personal Identity as a Substance
In Chapter 23, we find Chidi and later Eleanor questioning which version is their best self. The neighborhood has been rebooted 802 times. Each time, people’s memories were erased. Here is the problem. Are they the same person in each version? John Locke defines a person has a thinking thing […]
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Chapter 36 -Splitting Brains and Parfit Explained
In Chapter 36, there is a quick and confusing mention of placing each half of a person’s brain in a different body and then asking which body is the real person. This question, somehow, was to help us understand why the current Chidi is not the same as the Chidi […]
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Chapter 7 – The Moral Obligation to Kill Janet
In order to stop Michael from going into retirement where he will be tortured for all eternity, Eleanor hatches a plan to stop the train that will take Michael into retirement. Stopping the train means killing Janet by pressing a red button. Eleanor justifies doing a small bad for a […]
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Chapter 4 – The Parable of the Sock, AKA, Philosophy for Dummies
At the beginning of chapter 4, we see Eleanor in class. Chidi is discussing self-identity. On the chalkboard, there is a list of works. Two things stood out to me. The first was a work by David Hume listed as A Treatise of the Self with a date of 1738. […]
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