 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - Liczba stron: 512
...this alone makes us responsible both to human and Divine law. " Person," says Locke, " is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit, and so...only to intelligent agents, capable of a law, and of happiness and misery. This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past by... | |
 | William Lister - 1861 - Liczba stron: 480
...that they could not be distinguished; for such twins have been seen."— Ibid. § 19. Once more, " This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness, whereby it becomes concerned and accountable, owns and imputes to itself past actions, just upon the... | |
 | James Cooper (of Norwich.) - 1862 - Liczba stron: 226
...itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." He further says, " It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit, and so...agents capable of a Law, and Happiness, and Misery." Dr. Johnson, defining the word in his Dictionary, thought it sufficient to quote the above extracts.... | |
 | John Henry Freese - 1864 - Liczba stron: 292
...were so like that they could not be distinguished ; for such twins have been seen. — Ibid. §. 19. This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness, whereby it becomes concerned and accountable, owns and imputes to itself past actions, just upon the... | |
 | Ebenezer L. Jones - 1867 - Liczba stron: 104
...greatest difficulties. No laws of war forbid the making reprisals. The personality of an intelligent being extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness. Hunger and thirst are powerful persuaders. EXERCISE 133. Assassinate Elastic 'Masquerade assertion... | |
 | Jonathan Langstaff Forster - 1878 - Liczba stron: 342
...union with that wherein this consciousness then resided, made a part of that same Self" (sec. 25). " This personality extends itself, beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness" (book ii., chap. 27, sec. 26). According to this definition, personal identity is excluded during any... | |
 | Jonathan Langstaff Forster - 1873 - Liczba stron: 342
...union with that wherein this consciousness then resided, made a part of that same Self" (sec. 25). " This personality extends itself, beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness" (book ii., chap. 27, sec. 26). According to this definition, personal identity is excluded during any... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - Liczba stron: 768
...diligent observers of circumstances, the loose regard whereof is the nurse of vulgar folly. HOOKER. Person belongs only to intelligent agents, capable of a law,...present existence to what is past only by consciousness, whereby it imputes to itself past actions, just upon the same ground that it does the present. LOCKE.... | |
 | 1917 - Liczba stron: 542
...: " is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligible agents capable of a law, and happiness and misery....existence to what is past, only by consciousness, . . . that which is conscious of pleasure and pain." It is very curious that Hume, who was a member... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - Liczba stron: 722
...finds what he calls " himself," there, I think, another may say ia the same person. It is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so...present existence to what is past, only by consciousness ; whereby it becomes concerned and accountable, owns and imputes to itself past actions, just upon... | |
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Person, as I take it, is the name for this self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself there, I think, another may say is the same person. It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable... 
