Sameness, Persons, and the Resurrection

According to Locke, scripture says nothing about the resurrection of same body. We will be resurrected. But in what sense can resurrected Jane “same” as living Jane? Throughout his thinking, Locke holds that sameness body and/or soul are not required for “the Jane.” Sameness person is required. Locke’s theory personal identity was ground-breaking seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It provoking resulted a wave critical responses. His distinction between “man” “person” important account identity, but hard contemporaries understand. The correspondence Edward Stillingfleet, example, shows Stillingfleet artificial. Having read this correspondence, Winch Holdsworth attacks sermon 1719 arguing denied altogether. Catharine Trotter Cockburn tries defend her Vindication. Despite clear understanding distinctions applied by she too struggles with make person.