John Locke and Personal Identity: Immortality and Bodily Resurrection in 17th-Century Philosophy

incarnation and bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy

in this article, the compatibility of the opinion on the impossibility of reincarnation and belief in bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy is studied. to this end, while defining and mentioning different types of reincarnation, some impediments that caused the transcendental philosophers consider reincarnation as impossible are compiled. then it is specified, with regard to the opin...

Personal identity and cosmopolitan philosophy

Jonardon Ganeri’s The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the FirstPerson Stance is a trailblazing study in cross-cultural philosophy of mind. Its liberal conception of naturalism makes room for a rich analytic taxonomy of conceptions of personal identity that go well beyond the standard models of Cartesianism, Physicalism, and Reductionism. But this naturalistically respectable model of the s...

John Locke and Modern Life

Locke on Consciousness, Personal Identity and the Idea of Duration

It is as undeniable as it is unhelpful to say that for Locke personal identity consists in the identity of consciousness. It is undeniable because he just comes out and says as much in passages like the following: “[T]he same consciousness being preserv’d. . .the personal Identity is preserv’d.” (II.xxvii.13)1 It is unhelpful, however, for two reasons: First, it is unclear what consciousness is...

John Locke on Respiration

During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...