[lit-ideas] nobody was hurt
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:38:15 EDT
--- INTERVIEW WITH SIR PETER F. STRAWSON.
Q: How did you come up with your idea of a 'person'
as a psycho-somatic unity?
PFS: Well, during the War. We were constantly being
bombed. From all directions: the Hun, the Dagos,
everyone seemed to be against us.
Q: Yes -- pathetic.
PFS: Exactly. And it wasn't like Warsaw. We were in
the middle of nowhere in a little French country
village in Normandy -- not far from England, matter
of fact.
Q: They had no consideration.
PFS: No consideration. One day a bombed exploded in
the outhouse. The sargent said, "Anybody heard?"
"No, nobody heard" was _my_ reply. Years later
I reflected on that: _I_ was hurt: in my _soul_.
Q: But the Churchlands claim, in their version of the
identity theory of the mind, that if the soul _is_ hurt
there is a corresponding body-event which counts as
a body hurt.
Lady Ann (interrupting): More tea?
JLS
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