John Locke on Personal Identity

I can imagine Locke thinks that the various entities contained in my body and soul complex will not change over time or that they will change if you are the same person I will. These entities are substances, living things (human beings), humans (rational consciousness and memory) and souls (non-material thought substances). This is an intuitive explanation that causes many problems. I evaluate the perspective of locking by describing what constitutes a personal identity and then explain how these changes occur as imagined when humans keep the same person .

John Locke believes that the identity (or self) of an individual is based on consciousness (ie memory), not the essence of the soul and body. Volume 2 (1689) of Chapter 27 entitled "Identity and Diversity of Papers Concerning Human Understanding" is considered as one of the first modern conceptualization of consciousness, ie, self-identification of self-repetition I will. As critics like Nietzsche point out, through this recognition moral responsibility is attributed to subjectivity and punishment, and sin is justified.

John Locke often uses his personal identity theory consciousness to separate personal identity from material identity or material identity. This is a purely psychological explanation of identity, which affects the judgment of moral responsibility (rock develops), but consciousness itself is not the same as moral sentiment. It can be regarded as yourself, which is wise, is reasonable and introspective, and at the same time can only be realized through a kind of consciousness that can not be separated from thinking. It seems to be indispensable: no one can perceive his perception without noticing it. (Article 2.27.9)

First, we analyze John Locke's personal identity theory. Locke explained his personal identity in the "identity and diversity" chapter. He divided it into various elements until he created a more general identity. Locke first explained, "All atoms are the same, and it is the same over time." In his first few lines, Locke emphasized that the identity of atoms will continue to exist over time. Then he revealed that the most important part of the organism's identity is "continuation of the same life". However, the difficulty of locking is to judge whether physical continuity or psychological continuity is important. It is clear that Rock refuses to believe that the identity of the human body is an important part of human identity. Rock used the example of his prince's soul to a shoe store to prove this: