 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 275by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Walter Robert Matthews - Christianity - 1921 - 262 pages
...Setting out, for example, with the definition given by Locke, " a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." 1 We might investigate the adequacy of this definition, and then... | |
 | 1923 - 44 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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 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 ; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable... | |
 | Mary Anne Warren - Philosophy - 1997 - 278 pages
...necessary for being a person. 'Person', Locke says, '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.'10 This definition is species-neutral; it leaves room for the... | |
 | Jed Rubenfeld - Philosophy - 2008 - 269 pages
...it bears to itself over time. Locke famously put this relation as follows: a person is a being that can "consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places." 11 If this thinking-of-itself-as-itself-in-different-times is a definitive characteristic of our consciousness,... | |
 | Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury - Medical - 2001 - 868 pages
...1959:11.1 1.12-13 and IL9.14). For Locke, "a 'person' was a 'thinking4 intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different terms and places" (cited in Lowe 1995:103). Thus, the defining characteristics of... | |
 | Paola Cavalieri - Nature - 2003 - 198 pages
...of the conscious life of the self. Locke defines a person as "a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places," 61 and even Kant, with all his insistence on rationality, claims... | |
 | H.A. Ten Have, Bert Gordijn - Medical - 2001 - 568 pages
...essential characteristic of a person which he regards as being: 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... | |
 | Partha Chatterjee - History - 2002 - 460 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; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable... | |
 | Julie K. Ward, Tommy L. Lott - Philosophy - 2002 - 340 pages
...defines "person" in the chapter "Of Identity and Diversity" as: "a thinking intelligent Being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places ..." (Essay, 2, 27, 9). It turns out that being a person in this... | |
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