Contemporary views on personal identity formation

Processes of personal identity formation and evaluation

Communications Technology and Personal Identity Formation

In the move from pre-literate to modern society there were few technological advances and the speed of mechanical devices was slow as well. The sensory shift occurred between an emphasis on the ear in the oral society to the visual in the modern literate society. The few changes and slow movement insured that individual and societal reactions to innovation were delayed and absorbed over a consi...

Hume on Personal Identity

First, Hume notes that we have a strong inclination to call something the “same” even when it is radically different. For instance, remove a chunk of matter from some object and we call it the same. A mature oak tree is said to be the “same” as the sapling. A fat adult is said to be the “same” as the tiny infant. So strong is this inclination that philosophers have attempted to explain identity...

Contemporary views on female pelvic anatomy.

he durable surgical repair of pelvic organ pro-lapse and its related disorders remains a significant challenge. The pelvic reconstructive surgeon needs an intimate knowledge of relevant surgical landmarks as well as a fundamental understanding of the biomechanics of pelvic organ support in order to successfully restore normal visceral anatomy and function. Rather than presenting a detailed desc...

12. The Dynamics of Personal and Social Identity Formation

"Each one of us has two heritages, a "vertical" one that comes to us from our ancestors, our religious community and our popular traditions, and a "horizontal" one transmitted to us by our contemporaries and by the age we live in. It seems to me that the latter is the more influential of the two, and that it becomes more so every day. Yet this fact is not reflected in our perception of ourselve...