Identidade Pessoal e Sobrevivência: um debate sob lentes neolockeanas

In this article, I analyse the coextensionality and compatibility between personal identity and survival from the neolockean’s perspective. The article’s content is divided in four parts. First, I present the personal identity problem and the neolockean’s perspective of the problem. Second, I present the theory of the philosopher Derek Parfit (1942-2017), who distinguishes personal identity from survival, treating this last one as the one that gives importance to identity. Third, I present David Lewis’s (1942-2017) objection to Parfit’s theory as well as Lewis’s theory, which rescues the compatibility between personal identity and survival from their coextensionality. Fourth, I offer some conclusions and guesses having in mind the exposed discussion.