Identity and Person: Locke on Personal Identity

Authors: Correia CJ

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000255

Volume 5, Issue 2

Abstract

We sustain in this essay, that the criterion of personal identity for Locke is not memory but consciousness. Therefore, for Locke, memory is the power of knowledge of the same consciousness.

Keywords: Locke; Reid; Consciousness; Memory; Personal identity

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