8.17.09 "The Wanderer Above the Mists" by Caspar David Friedrich

 Art Personal.  Art Philosophical.

 

• Who am I?
  
• What is it to be a person?
  
• What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another—that is, for      the same person to exist at different times?
  
• How do we find out who is who?
  
• What is our basic metaphysical nature? For instance, what are we made of?
  
•  How different could I have been from the way I actually am? 
  
• What is the practical importance of facts about our identity and persistence?
  

"Personal Identity." The Stanford Encyclopedia. Stanford University. 
n.d. Web.26 Nov. 2008. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/>