A theory that cannot adjudicate edge cases of fission or psychological discontinuity fails as a general account of moral responsibility, not merely as a response to the specific transmigration objection.
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A thought experiment in which a single person X divides into two distinct persons Y and Z, each psychologically continuous with X.
moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)
transmigration(Rejected by Origen in deference to church teaching.)
The Platonic theory that souls pass from one body to another, whether from human to human or from human to beast.