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File name: Joseph Butler quote Date: 02:45:16 AM 02/23/09
Joseph Butler remarks that "[w]hether we are to live in a future state . . . is the most important question which can possibly be asked . . . ."1
Joseph Butler, "Of Personal Identity," in John Perry, ed., Personal Identity (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1975), p. 99. "Future state" may be ambiguous, however, perhaps meaning, for example, merely tomorrow, as well as perhaps meaning an afterlife of some sort. At any rate, whether or not Butler meant the afterlife does not diminish that fact that most people led to the issue of personal identity are driven by that meaning of "future state."