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John Locke on Personal Identity. I think that Locke's arguments for his ideas are
sound, and I agree with what he is saying. Locke was a micro based ideologist. ...
... personal identity is a reaction either for or against the theory he proposed in
his work Essays Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1690 (John Locke, ...
... Furthermore, there are other flaws in Locke's view of personal identity that does
not apply to John's case including the faculty to transfer memories across ...
... Life (New York, 21 April 1961). 2 Locke, John. Personal Identity. Page 69. 3 Locke,
John. Personal Identity. Page 70. 4 James Baldwin (1924?87), US author. ...
the prince and the cobbler. The Prince and the Cobbler John Locke John Locke
speaks of personal identity and the survival of death. ...
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I think that Locke's arguments for his ideas are sound, and I agree with what he is saying.
Locke was a micro based ideologist. He believed that humans were autonomous individuals who, although lived in a social setting, could not be articulated as a herd or social animal. Locke believed person to stand for, a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking. This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same as another.
John Locke's on "Identity and Diversity" in chapter no 27, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualization of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject - and therefore punishment and guilt justified, as would critics such as Nietzsche point out. (John Locke, Kenneth P. Wrinkler, 1996)
Personal identity depends on consciousness, neither on substance or on the soul said Locke, which I agree with. We are the same person to the extent that we are conscious of our past and future thoughts and actions in the same way as we are conscious of our present thoughts and actions. If consciousness is this "thought" which doubles all thoughts, then personal identity is only founded on the repeated act of consciousness: "This may show us wherein personal identity consists: not in the identity of substance, but... in...
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