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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Ethics' and 'The View from Nowhere'

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
3244 Personal identity cannot be fully known a priori [Nagel]
3245 The question of whether a future experience will be mine presupposes personal identity [Nagel]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
4836 The mind only knows itself by means of ideas of the modification of the body [Spinoza]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
21861 Self-knowledge needs perception of the affections of the body [Spinoza]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
17216 The poet who forgot his own tragedies was no longer the same man [Spinoza]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness
3246 I can't even conceive of my brain being split in two [Nagel]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
4814 A thing is free if it acts by necessity of its own nature, and the act is determined by itself alone [Spinoza]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
21802 An act of will can only occur if it has been caused, which implies a regress of causes [Spinoza]
4837 'Free will' is a misunderstanding arising from awareness of our actions, but ignorance of their causes [Spinoza]
4843 Would we die if we lacked free will, and were poised between equal foods? Yes! [Spinoza]
4844 The mind is not free to remember or forget anything [Spinoza]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
4311 We think we are free because we don't know the causes of our desires and choices [Spinoza]
7828 The actual world is the only one God could have created [Spinoza]