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    It is not the case that Analysing the self requires examining the parts that constitute a person

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    • 1.Descartes' cogito establishes that the self is known immediately through thinking, prior to any analysis of bodily or mental parts.
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    • 2.If self-knowledge is foundationally pre-analytical, then part-analysis cannot be constitutive of, but only derivative from, the self.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant argues the transcendental unity of apperception ('I think') is a formal condition that unifies representations, not itself a composite of parts.
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    • 2.A unifying condition cannot be explained by what it is the condition of, making aggregate-analysis of the self categorically circular.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The conception of self is embedded in personhood
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    • 2.Personhood is constituted by the five aggregates
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    • 3.The assumption of self arises in relation to personhood
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