 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 192 pages
...Personal Identity consists," he says, " 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" (n. xxvii. 9). Now how is it that a thinking... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 192 pages
...Personal Identity consists," he says, " 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" (n. xxvii. 9). Now how is it that a thinking... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 662 pages
...Ncrcier, De la Fu-fectibilUe Uumaita, 8ro, P«rl«, 1842. PERSON"Person," says Locko,1 "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... | |
 | James Cooper (of Norwich.) - 1862
...concise, but full. Having said, " "We must consider what person stands for," he thus proceeds, " which 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." He further says, " It is a forensic term, appropriating... | |
 | History - 1865
...find wherein personal identily consists, we must consider ivhat person Stands for; which l think is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection and can consider itself äs itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places: which it does only by that consciousness,... | |
 | 1866
...themselves. " Whatever possesses [a power of] spontaneous action within itself is a person." * 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870
...definition of it is substantially that which has now taken the place of the ancient meaning : " A person is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself — the same thinking being in different times and places." This is the first passage quoted by Johnson... | |
 | ALEXANDER RAIN, M.A. - 1870
...identity as the ' consciousness of present and past actions in the person to whom they belong/ Person ' is a thinking, intelligent being: , that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places ; which it does only by that consciousness which... | |
 | Gustav Hartenstein - Philosophy - 1870 - 537 pages
...find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider tvhat person Stands for; tvhich I think is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection and can consider itselfas itself, thesame thinking thing in different timcs and places; tvhich it does only bythatconsciousness,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Athanasian Creed - 1871 - 105 pages
...of it is substantially that which has now taken the place of the ancient meaning : ' A person is ' a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and ' reflection, and can consider itself as itself — the same ' thinking being in different times and places.' This is the first passage quoted by Johnson... | |
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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... 
