The Concept of Personal Identity
Freud, Jung, Jaspers and Lowe
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https://doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.10.009Keywords
unity, atom, personal identity, being, consciousness, center of attention, individual subconsciousAbstract
Leibniz's concept of monads had of great importance for the development of the idealistic conception. Through Kant and his "Physical Monadology" she infiltrated into modern German philosophy. However, not only modern idealists referred to the concept of monads. Especially, that many scientific disciplines, which emanated from philosophy, related to the scope of idealistic notions, for example: psychology or sociology. German psychology and its creators have many often referred to monads theory. Freud, Fromm and Jung presented even their own point of views on this topic. Later theories, such as Lowe's theory, also refer to the concept of monads. These relations and the historical connections between monad theory and modern German psycho-philosophy are shown in this work.
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