| Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...successively changed by repairs. 4. Personal identity consists in consciousness. The word " person" means, " a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as the same thinking thing in different times and places." This being Locke's definition of the word person,... | |
| Robert Harkness Carne - Sermons, English - 1825 - 110 pages
...the soundest Philosophers that ever enlightened a dark age, the celebrated Locke, is this; " a person is, a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider •Isaiah xi. 1.-3. t Acts ii. 4. itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1826 - 548 pages
...thought of personality. " To find," he says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider v/h&t person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking...consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking."* Having once given this definition of a person, there can be no question, that personal identity, in... | |
| Thomas Wallace (LL.D.) - 1827 - 132 pages
...we must consider what person " stands for—which I think is a thinking intelli" gent being—that has reason and reflection, and " can consider itself...thinking " thing, in different times and places." Now, the result of this definition must be, that in Locke's meaning person means mind; or if by the... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 422 pages
...much as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it " stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. c. 27. § 9. But when the term is used more accurately... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 pages
...much as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it " stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. c. 27- § 9- But when the term is used more accurately... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 816 pages
...Comforts the sick, congratulates the sound. And holds for thrice three days a royal feast. Id. Л r«ri«i is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as it^lf, the same thinking thing in different times and Й»ОД. Loche. If speaking of himself in the... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...digressions, whether to the purpose or no.' To find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being that can consider itselt' the same in different times and places, which it does by the consciousness inseparable... | |
| John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...digressions, whether to the purpose or no.' To find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being that can consider itself the same in different times and places, which it does by the consciousness inseparable... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1835 - 574 pages
...find," he says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for; which, 1 think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason...consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking."* Having once given this definition of a person, there can be no question, that personal identity, in... | |
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