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The Works of John Locke - Page 275
by John Locke - 1823
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Selections from Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 240 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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Vocabulary of Philosophy: Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical, with ...

William Fleming - Philosophy - 1890 - 458 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." Personal identity thus consists in consciousness with memory....
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An Outline of Locke's Ethical Philosophy ...

Mattoon Monroe Curtis - Ethics - 1890 - 168 pages
...attributed only to a person. By "person", Locke understands a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit,...
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The Philosophy of Locke: In Extracts from The Essay Concerning Human ...

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1891 - 174 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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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 8

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 912 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, and...
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Beyond the Horizon, Or, Bright Side Chapters on the Future Life

Henry Dox Kimball - Eschatology - 1896 - 262 pages
...that of his persistent personality. Locke says, "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." This self-conscious personality is sometimes called the Ego,...
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Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics

William Wallace - Ethics - 1898 - 1168 pages
...Dei, xi. 24. scious states in time. A person, says Locke, is a ' thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as...same thinking being) in different times and places/ A little further on he tells us that 'Person is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit,...
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Chalk Lines Over Morals

Charles Caverno - Ethics - 1898 - 328 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.' Locke. "Example: 'The whole three persons are co-eternal together...
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The Moral Law: Or, The Theory and Practice of Duty; an Ethical Text-book

Edward John Hamilton - Ethics - 1902 - 488 pages
...substantia). Mr. Locke, also, says admirably, " Person stands for a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection and can consider itself as itself,...same thinking being in different times and places." ( ESSAY, II., 27, Section 9.) This conception of a person is the ordinary conception of the rational...
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Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Books II and IV (with ..., Book 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 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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