Concept

Open individualism

Overview

Open individualism is a view within philosophy of self, according to which there exists only one numerically identical subject, who is everyone at all times; in the past, present and future. It is a theoretical solution to the question of personal identity, being contrasted with empty individualism, which is the view that one's personal identity corresponds to a fixed pattern that instantaneously disappears with the passage of time, and closed individualism, the common view that personal identities are particular to subjects and yet survive over time.

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Philosophers who discussed Open individualism

• Daniel Kolak

Related ideas

• Synthese
• Philosophical Studies
• Leo Tolstoy
• Philosophy of self
• Physicist
• Physicalism
• Mysticism
• Utilitarianism
• Personal identity
• Why am I me?
• Averroes
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Daniel Kolak
• Upanishads
• Identity (philosophy)
• Krista and Tatiana Hogan

Place in the tradition

Part of Consciousness.

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