personhood Archives - Essay Quoll

Why do you find your original account of the argument and meaning of the text more persuasive than alternative readings?

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Ambrose

Democracy, Personhood, Capitalism: Whose Value? Which Future? Description Read the film (“Capital: In the 21st Century” on Netflix) as a philosophical text with a clear argument: an argument, premises, and evidence to support the premises. You should organize your essay to answer the following questions in approximately 750 words: What do you think the text […]

Explain this passage in the light of John Lock’s version of psychological theory of personal identity. Compare and contrast Lock’s account of personhood with the Early Buddhist theory of non-self and discuss what you find plausible or implausible about the two theories.

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Ambrose

In chapter 27, book II of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) famously defines a person as a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness […]