JOHN LOCKE

Question 1

Most influential enlightenment thinker

Answer 1

John Locke

Question 2

the age of enlightenment/ the age of reason

Answer 2

it is was an intellectual and philosophical movements that dominated the ideas in europe during 18th Century

Question 3

How did locke described the self?

Answer 3

• a thinking thing

- expanded definition: memories of a thinking thing

Question 4

Self is identified with? (Locke)

Answer 4

self is identified with consciousness and this “Self”is consist of sameness of consciousness

Question 5

Self and memory

Answer 5

-Self consists of memory

the person exiting now is the same person yesterday because he/she remembers the thoughts, experiences or actions of the earlier self ( Natsoulas 1994; Fuchs 2017)

Question 6

what does a person’s memory provide? (Locke)

Answer 6

continuity of experience that allows him/her to identify himself/herself as the same person overtime.

Question 7

Theory of personal identity

Answer 7

Allows Locketo justify a defense of accountability
- since the person is the same “Self”in the passing of time he/ she can be accountable for her past behaviours

• However, he/she can only be held accountable for behaviours if he/she can remember.

Question 8

Tabula Rasa

Answer 8

knowledge is derived from experience

Question 9

The concept of ignorant (Locke)

Answer 9

state of a person who cannot remember his/ her behaviour is the same as the state of the person who never committed the act.