Published: 2018-08-181

teenth-Century Dispute about Personal Identity

Andrzej Stoiński
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.392

Abstract

The paper describes some aspects of eighteenth-century philosophical disputes. The controversies were inspired by Lockean theory about a person and personal identity. The discussion was referred to the substantial nature of personal identity and to the role of consciousness in it. In the first case, Leibniz, Butler and Reid argued for the substantial nature of human identity while, Locke avoided taking a position. The second issue, in large part, was linked to the previous, and it indicates, among other things, similar spreading of opinions. Locke recognized consciousness as an essential criterion of personal identity, but Leibniz, Butler and Reid opposed to that position.

Keywords:

Locke, metaphysics of a person, personal identity, person

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Stoiński, A. (2018). teenth-Century Dispute about Personal Identity. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (22), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.392

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