Original Articles

Is Personal Identity Evaluative?

Published in: South African Journal of Philosophy
Volume 24 , issue 2 , 2005 , pages: 87–96

DOI: 10.4314/sajpem.v24i2.31416

Author(s): Jacqui Poltera School of Philosophy and Ethics University of Kwa Zulu-Natal Private BagX0l Scottsville,

Abstract

Martha Nussbaum subscribes to the view that our identity is an evaluative question determined by our common, deeply held beliefs about what is worthwhile in human life. In so doing, she asserts that for an account of ethics to have “philosophical power” it needs to be grounded in an account of human nature that is both evaluative and internal.

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