User:Kinkreet/Self

Naturalist
Humans are entirely natural, derived from natural mechanisms such as evolution. There is no spiritual components.

Hylomorphism
A concept developed by Aristotle, which states that all substances are a composite of matter and form. Matter in the sense which Aristotle meant is anything to which the substance is made out of. Form is the way matter is put together. So although the matter which makes up the self may be continually changing, the form remains the same. Because there is something which remains in us that is unchanged, that can be the basis of our identity. Aristotle also proposed that when we perceive or sense something, we understand its form.