...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 itselfas itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does on1y by that...

...Suppose for the sake of argument that something is a person if and only if it is, as Locke put it, "a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places" (1975: 335). I take this to be a paradigmatic...

...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 itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which...

...consists in something analogous to a "continued life", namely a continued self-consciousness. 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". "As far as any intelligent being can repeat...

...first-person content, as beliefs about myself, about my past, and my future.2 1 Thus 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; which it does only by that consciousness which...

...the context of primary care. A demented patient may not, as Locke would have it, be considered to be 'a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places'.12 If nothing else, these qualities reflect...

...called, that I recognised myself, as John Locke puts it in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 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'. I had become a person. 67 Brent Way was (and...

...restricted sense of being good as persons where 'person' is understood in John Locke's sense of 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'.17 Or we can be good social agents who always...

...example, considered that to qualify for personhood, it is necessary to demonstrate the qualities of 'a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places'.40 Similarly, Peter Singer identifies the characteristics...

...Singer is his definition of personhood. He draws on the definition of a person proposed by John Locke, "a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection and can consider itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places."16 Singer does not address the question of why...