ABSTRACT

So far, nothing has been said about my relationship to my body. This chapter partially closes this gap. It is only the fi rst of two chapters addressing this issue. Chapter 11 discusses the question as to how a fundamental entity would be related to a body it shared with another fundamental entity. Here the focus is merely on issues arising with respect to the diachronic identity of one fundamental entity. Accordingly, this chapter closes with a discussion of my beginning and my end and how it relates to the beginning and the end of the existence of my body.