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Originally posted by Nina
What is it that makes you who you are?
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Philosophical question? Are people, as Plato argued, made up of "essences" that are unchangeable and can be measured in terms of unchangeable eternal standards? or are people, as Aristotle implies in his teachings about teleology, necessarily defined in comparison to other people and that "perfection" is not defined in classic forms but in relative forms?
Or to take a Buddhist perspective, the "Self" is an illusion. We are nothing more than mere "heaps" of attachment?