 | Immanuel Kant - Causation - 1881 - 590 pages
...rational being can bring his present existence into connection with his former action and thoughts, and consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places. The question about substance is thus quite indifferent. Continuous consciousness, whether it subsists... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1882 - 606 pages
...— " A being capable of exercising understanding and will — a self-determining intelligence ; " "a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places ; " "a being intelligent and free, every spiritual and moral agent, everj cause which is in possession... | |
 | Edward Porter Humphrey - Bible - 1888 - 564 pages
...the door. Fourthly, man, like God, is a person, a separate force. " Person," says Locke, " stands for a thinking, intelligent being; that has reason and...same thinking thing, in different times and places." ' A person can say / and my and mine ; may be addressed as you or thou, yours or thine ; may be spoken... | |
 | Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...discredit the doctrine that God is an Infinite Person. Locke has given a good definition of person : — " a thinking, intelligent being that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places." This describes human personality, but it holds in the main of the divine personality. To say that God... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 240 pages
...Personal identity. — This being premised, to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what " person " stands for ; which, I think, is a...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and it seems to me essential to it : it being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1890 - 458 pages
...Understanding, bk. ii. ch. xxvii.): — " To find wherein personal identity consists we must consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking...same thinking thing in different times and places." Personal identity thus consists in consciousness with memory. " Consciousness is inseparable from thinking... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - Ethics - 1890 - 168 pages
...consciousness and personality: The answer to this question will give Locke's position. "Person", says Locke, "is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason...and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, as the same thinking thing, in different times and places, which it does only by that consciousness... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1891 - 176 pages
...little consider. 0 This being premised, to fine wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what " person " stands for ; which, I think, is a...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and it seems to me essential to it : it being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 844 pages
...the essential mark of personality in the intellectual sphere. 'A person, 'says Locke, ' 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' (Essay, ii. 27). In the moral sphere personality means self-determination... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Ethics - 1895 - 400 pages
...tracing all knowledge to sensation and reflection, admitted the existence of mind, denning Person as ' a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself.'—Essay (1690) n. 27, sec. 9. HUME denied 'that we are every moment intimately conscious of... | |
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I think, 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... 
