Friday, 3 November 2023

Locke and Personal Identity | Chapter 6 | Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 1

 John Locke reviews the idea of a distinct self and the maintenance of consciousness following in position or time death. The definition of a private identity across period is provided. Insofar as it is feasible, aforementioned a criteria describes the necessities that must be met orderly for people to survive. According to John Locke, cognitive continuity decides one's personal correspondence. He believed that the foundation of individual's personal similarity, or "self," was awareness, namely memory, rather than the entity of either the soul or the body. We endure in this essay, that the criterion of private identity for Locke is not thought but consciousness. Therefore, for Locke, memory rest on knowledge of the alike consciousness.

Author(s) Details:

Carlos João Correia,
University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RRAASS-V1/article/view/12354

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