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In metaphysics, identity (from Latin: identitas, "sameness") is the relation each thing bears only to itself. [1] [2] The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their properties, are they one and the same thing?), and questions about change and personal identity over time (what has to be the case for a person ...
Identity (philosophy), the relation each thing bears only to itself; Law of identity, that each thing is identical with itself; Personal identity, the numerical identity of a person over time; Identity (social science), qualities etc that characterize a person or group; Political identity
Objectivism, the philosophy founded by novelist Ayn Rand, is grounded in three axioms, one of which is the law of identity, "A is A." In the Objectivism of Ayn Rand, the law of identity is used with the concept existence to deduce that that which exists is something. [6] In Objectivist epistemology logic is based on the law of identity. [7]
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It is also known as a 'criterion of identity' or 'indiscernibility principle'. The history of the consideration of such a principle begins with Aristotle . [ 2 ] It was much discussed by the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308) with his " haecceity " and later, during Renaissance , by Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), Bonaventure ...
Hegel's position is a critical transformation of the concept of the absolute advanced by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), who argued for a philosophy of Identity: ‘Absolute identity’ is, then, the link of the two aspects of being, which, on the one hand, is the uni verse, and, on the other, is the changing multi plicity ...
Perdurantism or perdurance theory is a philosophical theory of persistence and identity. [1] The debate over persistence currently involves three competing theories—one three-dimensionalist theory called "endurantism" and two four-dimensionalist theories called "perdurantism" and "exdurantism".
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity [1] is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press. It is an attempt to articulate and to write a history of the "modern identity".