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    John Locke was an English philosopher born in 1632 who made important contributions to political philosophy and epistemology during the Enlightenment era. Some of Locke's most influential ideas were his view of personal identity being founded on consciousness and memory, that one's soul can transfer between substances while maintaining consciousness, and that humans are born with blank minds or "tabula rasa" that are shaped by experiences over time. Locke argued these concepts in his work "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

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    John Locke was an English philosopher born in 1632 who made important contributions to political philosophy and epistemology during the Enlightenment era. Some of Locke's most influential ideas were his view of personal identity being founded on consciousness and memory, that one's soul can transfer between substances while maintaining consciousness, and that humans are born with blank minds or "tabula rasa" that are shaped by experiences over time. Locke argued these concepts in his work "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

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    John Locke was an English philosopher born in 1632 who made important contributions to political philosophy and epistemology during the Enlightenment era. Some of Locke's most influential ideas were his view of personal identity being founded on consciousness and memory, that one's soul can transfer between substances while maintaining consciousness, and that humans are born with blank minds or "tabula rasa" that are shaped by experiences over time. Locke argued these concepts in his work "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

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    John Locke’s

    Philosophy
    by
    Bugaay Lida Olaes Torres
    Who is John Locke ?

    01 02 03

    Born Died Role

    > August 29, 1632 > October 28, 1704 Enlightenment


    > Wrington, England > Oates, England
    “The only fence
    against the world
    is a thorough
    knowledge of it.”
    —John Locke
    Identity
    John Locke's main
    philosophy about
    personal identity
    or the self is Consciousness

    founded on
    consciousness or
    memory.
    Memory
    In his work, " Identity and Diversity" in An
    Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    (1689),

    “consciousness can be
    transferred from one “consciousness may be
    "if the same Substance substance (body and soul) lost involuntarily through
    which thinks be changed, to another. While the soul forgetfulness while the
    it can be the same person, is changed, for instance, soul stays the same. With
    or remaining the same, it consciousness remains this, he claimed that there
    can be a different person." the same, thereby is the same soul but a
    maintaining the personal different person.
    identity through the
    change.
    His philosophy can
    be understood
    easily in his
    illustration of “The
    Prince and the
    Cobbler.”
    The other remarkable contribution
    of this country lawyer was the
    notion of tabula rasa.

    “posits that everyone started


    as a blank slate, and the
    content is provided by one's
    experiences over time”.

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