Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“Philosophers talk alot about ‘personal identity’ (sometimes ‘self identity’). This is different from what some non-philosophers mean when they speak of personal identity, which is likely closer to what we now colloquially call ‘political identity.’ The question that philosophers address when discussing ‘personal identity’ is how you can remain you over time. We all change as we grow; sometimes we even say we are different from who we were at some prior point in our life. Given how much we change, how can we say we are the same person from one time to another? … Does your political identity count as (part of) your personal identity?” (05/01/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/on-identity-personal-and-political