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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 British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 49
by British essayists - 1819
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Understanding Philosophy for AS Level

Christopher Hamilton - Drama - 2003 - 452 pages
...same list of capacities or properties that a person has. John Locke (1632-1704) defined a person as 'a thinking, intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places' (Locke 1984: II, xxvii,...
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Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World

François Debrix - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 308 pages
...find wherein personal Identity consists, we must consider what Person stands for; which I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does by that consciousness,...
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Locke on Essence and Identity

C.H. Conn - Philosophy - 2003 - 226 pages
...find wherein personal Identity consists, we must consider what Person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that...
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Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity

Renzong Qiu - Medical - 2004 - 260 pages
...personhood is highly reminiscent of John Locke's classical analysis of a person. whom he defines 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" i1975. II.xxvii.61. These are the more commonly...
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Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy

Lilli Alanen, Charlotte Witt - Philosophy - 2004 - 280 pages
...consciousness of one's self. He says, "... (W)e 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...
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Memory, History, Forgetting

Paul Ricœur - History - 2004 - 661 pages
...difference between the idea of the same man and that of a self, also termed person: "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" (§9). The difference is no longer marked by...
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Die Oikeiosislehre der Stoa, Volume 1

Robert Bees - Ethics, Ancient - 2004 - 400 pages
...find wherein personal Identity consists, we must consider what Person Stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it seif äs it seif, the same thinking thing in different times and places"); zu Locke und seinen Voraussetzungen...
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Self and Substance in Leibniz

Marc Elliott Bobro - Philosophy - 2004 - 164 pages
...root, without which the tree cannot stand. (African Riddle) "What Person stands for," Locke writes, "is a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that...
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Mind World: Essays in Phenomenology and Ontology

David Woodruff Smith - Philosophy - 2004 - 330 pages
...find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what Person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that...
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Das Selbst im Stil: die Autobiographien von Muriel Spark und Doris Lessing

Aglaja Frodl - Authors, English - 2004 - 296 pages
...each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a 72 Locke, "Of Identity", 335 definiert Person: "[A] thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places". 73 ibid. 74 Locke, "Of...
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