| Mark J. Cherry - Medical - 2005 - 288 pages
...to understand themselves in a self-conscious, self-reflexive way. As John Locke noted, 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... | |
| Robert Garner - Nature - 2005 - 204 pages
...life plan based upon them. Locke provides one of the best accounts of personhood, defining 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' (quoted in Holland, 2003: 15). Kant agrees... | |
| Eva Hung - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 224 pages
...nearly synonymous. In Book II of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defined '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" (1975: 335). He distinguished between physical... | |
| Nikolai F. Klimmek - Philosophy - 2005 - 254 pages
...gestellten Definition der Person hin. Locke bestimmt im Essay Concerning Human Understanding eine Person als „a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places" (zitiert nach: Malzkorn 1998, S. 103). 'j 3.2.4... | |
| William Wainwright - Philosophy - 2004 - 562 pages
...about the identity of persons. Hardly anyone will demur from Locke's characterization of 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" (1700/1975, 335). Locke's... | |
| F. LeRon Shults - Religion - 2005 - 340 pages
...apostles. In John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), the term "person" stands for "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... | |
| Gilbert Romeyer-Dherbey, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat - Ethics, Ancient - 2005 - 628 pages
...à bien en particulier par Locke et par Hume. 1 6. Le concept de personne qui est celui de Locke (« 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 only by that... | |
| Richard Sorabji - Philosophy - 2006 - 416 pages
...doing, but he does, like Parfit, stress the links. In 2.27.9 °f his Essay, he tells us 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. This presumably covers future as well as past,... | |
| Paul Sheehy - Philosophy - 2006 - 252 pages
...an answer to the traditional question of the ontological status of persons. Locke regards 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'.2' Whatever is to count as a person will satisfy... | |
| Miroslav Volf, Michael Welker - Religion - 288 pages
...Essay Concerning Human Understanding, concentrated on defining person in terms of the self. 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... | |
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