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    It is not the case that Human identity is formed dialogically, through interaction and struggle with significant others, not in isolation.

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    • 1.Locke and later Parfit ground personal identity in psychological continuity—memory chains and overlapping mental states—without reference to intersubjective recognition.
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    • 2.Empirical cases of feral children and solitary confinement survivors demonstrate persistent self-continuity despite radical absence of dialogical interaction.
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    • 3.If personal identity can survive or form under conditions of social deprivation, then dialogical struggle is sufficient but not necessary for identity formation.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental subject grounds moral identity in universal rational autonomy prior to and independent of any social relationship.
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    • 2.If the capacity for self-legislation through reason constitutes personal identity, dialogical recognition is contingent to identity, not constitutive of it.
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    • 1.We do not become full human agents or define our identity in isolation from others.
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    • 2.Identity is always defined in dialogue with, and sometimes in struggle against, what significant others want to see in us.
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