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" I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places... "
The Works of John Locke - Page 275
by John Locke - 1823
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1866 - 490 pages
...spontaneous action within itself is a person." * A person " is 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 does only by that consciousness which is inseparable...
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An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the ...

John Locke - 1877 - 702 pages
...must consider what " person " stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking Ihing, in different times and places ; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable...
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The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially ...

Charles Mackay - Cant - 1877 - 644 pages
...rector, vicar, or curate of a parish ; a clergyman. A person is a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places. ā€” LOCKE. A general loose term for a human being, one ; a roan....
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A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences: Including the Vocabulary of ...

Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1878 - 1082 pages
...we must consider what person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." This looks like confining personal identity to the mind. But...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illustrations of ...

John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...must consider what " person" stands for; which, I think, is 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 does only by that consciousness which is inseparable...
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A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences: (Including the Vocabulary of ...

Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1881 - 1080 pages
...Si., chap. 4. PEES0Nā€” : * Person," says Locke, 1 "stands 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 does only by that consciousness which is inseparable...
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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Bible Christians - 1882 - 606 pages
...understanding and will ā€” a self-determining intelligence ; " "a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places ; " "a being intelligent and free, every spiritual and moral agent,...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 8

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 864 pages
...the intellectual sphere. ' A person, says Locke, ' stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as...same thinking being in different times and places ' ( Essay, ii. 27 ). In the moral sphere personality means self-determination or reasondirected will,...
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Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law

Edward Porter Humphrey - Bible - 1888 - 564 pages
...person, a separate force. " Person," says Locke, " stands 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." ' A person can say / and my and mine ; may be addressed as you...
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The Beginnings of Ethics

Carroll Cutler - Ethics - 1889 - 350 pages
...Ethics, book iii. chap. ii. sect. 182. ing to Locke, a " person is a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as...same thinking being, in different times and places. . . . Person, as I take it, is the name for this self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself,...
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