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Appendix One “Of Identity and Diversity” An Essay concerning Human Understanding: Book 2, Chapter 27 (pp. 163-232) John Locke.
John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Book 2: Chapter 27. Book II - Chapter XXVII Of Identity and Diversity. 1. Wherein identity consists. Another occasion the mind often takes of comparing, is the very being of things, when, considering anything as existing at any determined time and place, we compare it with itself existing at another time, and thereon form the ideas of.
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. The first and second have been recorded into LibriVox. This recording is a repetition of the second of Locke's Essays. All of his essays were, and are, very influential. Edward Stillingfleet 1635-1699 (Bishop of Worcester) wrote a Critique of Locke’s ideas and many letters to him.
In chapter 27 of his “Of Personal Identity,” Locke explains that when trying to compare the mind of a person we must compare it at one time and place, to itself at a different time and place, but the mind needs intelligent, thinking capabilities, therefore, the idea of identity and diversity are formed (Locke 1,1).
Chapter XXVII of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2nd Ed.. CHAPTER XXVII. OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY. 1. Wherein Identity consists. ANOTHER occasion the mind often takes of compar-ing, is the very being of things, when, considering ANY-. 2. Identity of Substances. We have the ideas but of three sorts of substances: 1.
John Locke in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding restated the importance of the experience of the senses over speculation and sets out the case that the human mind at birth is a complete, but receptive, blank slate ( scraped tablet or tabula rasa ) upon which experience imprints knowledge.