PHIL 1550 Lecture 10: PHIL1550B Feb6Lecture.docx
17 Mar 2015
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February 6, 2015: john locke & personal identity. John locke & personal identity: object o(1) is identical to o(2), if o(1) is in place p(1) at time (t1) and o2 is in p1 at. There"s an underlying constant that there are properties of oneself that never change over time: locke didn"t wholly agree with the mainstream idea of the soul, a person"s identity consists in their consciousness and not their soul. Evidence of this identity is given by our memories: when memories of past actions disappear, we are no longer the same person who performed those actions. If you have the same soul throughout time, then you are the same person: for some like plato, the soul is what a person really is, and the soul is a nonphysical thing. Plato believed that the body distorts true knowledge; any knowledge that we get from sensory experience is not objective truth, but simply conventional knowledge.
