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Abstract
What is the relationship between a person’s living body and her identity? In this article, will argue for compatibilist account of personal identity, according to which persons are life forms. For this reason, I will sharply distinguish between species and life form. Morphologically speaking, the relation of species and life form can be determined in such a way that the latter is a configuration of the individual life under the species form. Seen in this way, the relationship between species and life form does not imply a dualism of two forms or substances, but an integrative combination of forms. While the species form composes living organisms such as humans, the personal life form integrates a supra-individual structure in them, thereby configuring their living capacities reflexively and intersubjectively. This allows to understand a person’s identity not only in logical or ontological, but also in normative terms.