...to life. The definition of a person comes from Locke in the 19th century, who wrote that 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."(214) This person, human or otherwise, has...

...Locke began his celebrated account of personal identity with an account of what "person" 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...

...Innerlichkeit aus. Das heißt, eine Person ist in der modernisierten Version der scholastischen Bestimmung »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...

...So Locke contends that identity must include the recognition of sameness. He writes that 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...

...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...