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Heiddeger offers us this analogy about identity, “Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads.”

In the Republic, Aristotle argued that justice in the state is precisely the same as justice in the individual, that is, a harmony between the various parts for the good of the whole.

Hume argued that there was no distinction between reason and sentiment.

__________ warns us not to slide form distinguishing between mind and body to formulating dubious views about the inferiority of some groups of people relative to others.

In the Dao De Jing, Laozi warned us that failure was our own worst enemy and that we ought to protect our selves as if we were our own best friends by becoming successful in all that we do.

Descartes’s account of mental changes causing bodily changes, and vice versa is called __________.

_____________, in his novel Steppenwolf, presented a character whose “self” was a multiple or pluralistic self. Harry Haller lives with the myth of “two selves”: one human, rational, and well behaved; the other beastly, wild, and wolf like. Harry’s unhappiness stems from his oversimplified notion of self.

The __________ are materialists but they are not reductionists; they believe that consciousness is a result of the complicated connections that go on in the brain.

The quote below belongs to__________ . “Since brains do produce minds, and since programs by themselves can’t produce minds, it follows that the way the brain does it can’t be by simply instantiating a computer program.”

When Aristotle wrote about the soul, he was referring to __________.