The lived body and the simple view. A phenomenological approach to personal identity

Abstract

The article provides phenomenological elements to reinforce some claims of the simple view in the context of the debate on personal identity. For this aim, first, we describe Geoffrey Madell's proposal and we introduce the phenomenological notion of lived body (Leib). Second, we show how the vital reduction proposed by Francisco Leocata avoids a possible immanentist interpretation of phenomenology, and favors the development of an embodied notion of self and the possibility of understanding the world as transfixed by subjectivity. Third, this development will be the foundation to show how the phenomenology of personal relationships and narrative can contribute to the question of personal identity.