The firm sense
of personal identity which is a prerequisite for intimacy in marriage and sexual relationships, is also strengthened and affirmed by experiences of interacting constructively with a person of the complementary sex.
That is, claims for equal treatment for individuals may be held to depend on a doctrine
of personal identity which is less fundamental than the doctrine of social inheritance underlying claims for the maximization of the total welfare.
Our SF East Bay couples and sex therapists are committed to maintaining a keen awareness of the many strands
of their personal identities which influence their work as psychotherapists, including but not limited to sex and gender, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, immigration experiences, disability, and spirituality, and to understand how those strands of identity combine.
Our couples and sex therapists are committed to maintaining a keen awareness of the many strands
of their personal identities which influence their work as psychotherapists, including but not limited to sex and gender, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, immigration experiences, disability, and spirituality, and to understand how those strands of identity combine.
Not exact matches
In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, researchers identified the area
of the brain that processes this information about
personal identities,
which is called the anterior temporal lobe.
In that vein, once a quarter, Daniel Lubetzky, the founder and CEO
of KIND Snacks, sits down with new hires and asks them to tell funny,
personal stories, from
which he plucks a common theme that becomes the
identity for that «class.»
The rights and dignity
of single moms and single people generally are better protected than ever [and that is progress], but there are also more single moms than ever,
which might not be, on balance, good for the formation
of personal identity in most cases.
I think we are too quick to depersonalize this and miss that we are talking about complex individuals who are trying to figure out, like all
of us, what it means to be made in the image and likeness
of God and yet have a whole intact
personal identity which can include same - sex attraction.
For several years I taught Great Books classes to college undergraduates, and the European focus
of the four - semester sequence (the first part was called «Roots
of Western Thought») illuminated issues
of which Augustine made the first consummate exploration:
personal identity, individuality, the inviolable and incommensurate self.
The strength
of tribalism lies in the
personal bonds
of mutual loyalty
which hold the tribe together, give it an
identity, endow it with strength and courage to overcome threats, and enable it to survive from generation to generation.
Either way, whether authentically or in an «as if» mode, growth in regard to some concepts can be a matter
of degree, namely, the degree to
which the growth also involves an actual or imaginable change in the learner's
personal identity.
He is not lost in the mass
of humanity, in
which he would be so utterly submerged that he would also be in danger
of losing whatever it is that gives him
personal identity.
Though most, if not all, humans are guilty
of thinking judgmental and hypocritical thoughts, those making up roughly 60 % 0f the population who are truly ignorant, narrowminded, with lack
of a
personal identity (easily manipulated by peers) tend to go to the extreme
of blowing the horn
of self - righteousness by pointing out the flaws in other groups instead
of focusing on their own flaws,
which is an increased epidemic in this day in age especially in the age groups
of 15 to 33.
The bridge dissolves, and I am left with a series
of present «momentary selves» inexplicably linked so as to constitute that obscure reality
which we generally refer to as «
personal identity.»
Thus the
personal identity of Peter or Joan is an abstraction relatively to «the momentary states or events in
which alone the individual is fully concrete or actual» (CSPM 73).
A sense
of personal identity is preserved, albeit always in an approximate manner, because
of the similarities
which are manifested in the pattern over time.
Peter Limper's paper «Action, Responsibility, and the Problem
of Personal Identity,»
which expressed a view
of the agent closer to that
of Whitehead's, was also discussed.
I fear lest by the very act
of making a
personal statement I risk both obscuring an emphasis
which is basic both to my own Christian
identity and to the message I seek to spread and sounding insufferably egocentric in the bargain.
If here and now I am myself a
personal identity only through my living with, by, towards, and from other
personal identities — and indeed by my contacts with the entire natural order from
which I am an emergent but
of which I still remain as a part — then those others and that order must have their place in the picture.
And the difference is that Augustine simply could not conceive
of personal identity as a work
of self - creation,
which gives his inwardness its own peculiar character.
It seems to my perceptions that you might be having a
personal identity conundrum... Speaking from experience; many folks seem unable to cope with individualized rationalizing complexities... Giving up attempting, toward understanding social austerities
which encompass individualism, gives people their identification
of oneness... Individualisms are set upon the relativities
of quaint somberness issues in daily moderations... Religious
identities are as emotionalized labels giving people an ability to pause and reflect upon judgmental reasoning... Whether or not, religious agendas are servicing and served with ever those willing to serve...
If love is reconciliation overcoming estrangement between
personal beings, it is also the reunion
of that
which was separated, the recovery
of a fundamental
identity.26
There's also a quick and eloquent summary
of the Lee Ward «
personal identity Locke» (
which I also endorsed) by,
of course, Lee Ward.
But for its members it will fulfill the demands
of being human: giving a sense
of ultimate meaning, offering release from
personal failure, creating a noble
identity of integrity, fostering the richness
of a caring community, and upholding a standard
of perfection
which will both judge and inspire.
Naturalism reduced the human ego to a stream
of consciousness in
which personal identity was at a minimum.5 Idealism identified consciousness with mind and finally identified the mind with some sort
of divinity or absolute.
It is that
personal identity obtains whenever there is a serially ordered society
of primarily mental occasions (a soul) in
which each occasion actually or potentially prehends unmediatedly the mental poles
of all its predecessors.
Belonging in a group always involves a tension between our
personal identity, our own sense
of self, and our social
identity which reflects the claims
of our family or community through prescribed roles and behaviors.
An ancestral chain model is committed to some sort
of replacement
of our common sense intuitions about these matters with some weaker sorts
of intuitions
which are compatible with that model
of personal identity and
which are not too unlike those common sense intuitions.
This contention is critical in relation to Hartshorne's view
of personal identity,
which stresses the linear or «personally ordered» sequences or «trends
of becoming» (k, 1, m, n).
The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or
personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration
of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh
of these creatures
of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means
of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in
which the future does not exist.
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment
of the necessary role
of the state to correct the distortions
of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives
of «an active state has played in the economic development
of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and
personal identity in a society in
which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type
of poverty where communal, family and
personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
First
of all, his conception
of reality as social process makes individual
personal identity through time an abstraction from a more concrete network
of social interaction
which unites individuals.
We can briefly reconstruct as follows one prominent argument
which brings Merleau - Ponty to this new notion
of the cogito and
which will thus bring us to the question
of personal identity.
In summary, then, I have tried to show how Whitehead might explain, within the context
of his Psychological Physiology, certain
of Merleau - Ponty's phenomenological evidences
which are central for understanding
personal identity.
The originality
of the occasions
of the supportive nexus is «canalized... by way
of threads
of inheritance, so that
personal identity may combine originality
of response with an adequate order upon
which it depends.»
How would Whitehead explain, within the context
of his Psychological Physiology, certain
of Merleau - Ponty's phenomenological evidences
which are central for understanding
personal identity?
Earlier I spoke
of an extended sense
of responsibility and guilt
which might be applicable to changes in
personal identity.
He was composed
of body and soul, that is,
of nexus
of low - grade occasions coordinated by an ordered series
of high - grade occasions,
which traced his
personal identity through his own, life - history.
And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers
of the finite experiences
of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self
of memories
of our earthly passage,
which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance
of our
personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.
7 Interpretation
of the unconscious in terms
of Whitehead's doctrine
of physical feeling affords a means whereby one might reconcile the apparent conflict between the Freudian individual unconscious and the Jungian collective unconscious: the inheritance ingredient in the human event comprises both idiosyncratic elements immediately relevant to the thread
of personal identity and universal elements
which have lower grades
of relevance.
These are activities in
which the communal
identity of congregation and the
personal identities of its members are shaped in ways appropriate as responses to God's presence in Jesus
of Nazareth.
Personal opinions become all the more precious in prison because they are a way
of asserting your
identity amidst a system
which has taken it way.
This is where the phrase «the
personal is political» has taken us: into a world
of anxious, narcissistic egotism, in
which identity groups attempt to take ownership
of issues while silencing those who appear to attack their
identity.
Doing so restricts the freedoms
of those who want to access services on the basis
of their
identity,
which seems an intolerable price to pay for another's
personal freedom.
Many voters have «Republican» or «Democrat» as part
of their
personal identity,
which they often inherited from their parents.
«This decision,
which protects New Yorkers»
personal data, validates what we've known from the beginning: that all residents — regardless
of their gender
identity, permanent address, or immigration status — deserve access to all
of our city's critical resources.»
In some areas
of the Science Websites, we request or may request that you provide
personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, contact information, billing information, and any other information from
which your
identity is discernible.
Clinicians and researchers have raised ethical questions about the transplant, as well as concerns about whether Dinoire was stable enough to give informed consent for the procedure —
which dips into uncharted issues involving the relationship between the face and
personal identity — and for the regimen
of immunosuppressive drugs she must now take for the rest
of her life.
Although most IRC users do not reveal their
personal identity, they still seem to behave according to certain social norms - there is a tendency to express opinions in a neutral to positive way, for example,
which may be a way
of avoiding direct confrontations.
The entire blog post is interesting mostly due to its weirdness, as it involves a shady business partner, Frind e-mailing Russo's mother, and hints about Russo's other hack - and - extort operations.Jenny Mc Carthy early hardcore, Pamela video, and more!Great site
which is very popular due to the quality
of the live sex shows they have on offer here.The above is the most important bit
of info for Plentyoffish users, but the actual story
of the hack and how it occurred is very confusing and differs highly depending on who you believe.According to Markus Frind, who described the hack and the events that followed in detail on his
personal blog, Plentyoffish was hacked by Argentinian hacker Chris Russo, who did it under his own name, without taking precaution to hide his
identity.