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    Locke on Personal Identity

    Locke’s most thorough discussion of the persistence (or diachronic identity) of persons can be found in Book 2, Chapter 27 of the Essay (“Of Identity and Diversity”), though Locke anticipates this discussion as early as Book 1, Chapter 4, Section 5, and Locke refers to persons in other texts, including the Second Treatise of Government. The discussion of persons and their persistence conditions also features prominently in Locke’s lengthy exchange with Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester (1697–1699).

    Locke begins “Of Identity and Diversity” by first getting clear on the principle of individuation, and by setting out what some have called the place-time-kind principle—which stipulates that no two things of the same kind can be in the same place at the same time, and no individual can be in two different places at the same time (L-N 2.27.1).[2] With some of the basics of identity in place, Locke

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    John Locke

    English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

    For other people named John efternamn, see John Locke (disambiguation).

    John Locke

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    Portrait of John Locke,
    by Godfrey Kneller (1697)

    Born

    John Locke


    (1632-08-29)29 August 1632

    Wrington, Somerset, England

    Died28 October 1704(1704-10-28) (aged 72)

    High Laver, Essex, England

    EducationChrist Church, Oxford (BA, 1656; MA, 1658; MB, 1675)
    EraAge of Enlightenment
    RegionWestern philosophy
    School
    Influences
    InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford[9]
    Royal Society

    Main interests

    		Metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, economics

    Notable ideas

    John Locke (; 29 August 1632 (O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (O.S.))[13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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    Abstract

    John Locke speaks of personal identity and survival of consciousness after death. A criterion of personal identity through time is given. Such a criterion specifies, insofar as that is possible, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the survival of persons. John Locke holds that personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity. He considered personal identity (or the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.

    Keywords:Personal Identity, Consciousness, Self, Memory, Survival after death

    Introduction

    The issue of personal identity and its determents has always been of concern for many philosophers. Questions are raised as to what does being the person that you are, from one day to the next, necessarily consist of. Personal identity theory is the philosophical confrontation with the ultimate questions of our own existence, such as who are we, and is there a life after death? This s