2021 - Franco Angeli
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John Locke and Catharine Cockburn on personal identity
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- John Locke's account of personal identity (Essay 2.27) is one of his most discussed theories. Opposing the Cartesian ontology of mind, Locke argued that the soul does not always think for thinking is simply one of its operations, but not its essence , and that personal identity consists in consciousness alone. Against Locke, an anonymous commentator published the Remarks upon an Essay concerning Humane Understanding (169799) charging Locke's view with possible immorality. Catharine Cockburn rebuffed the Remarker's objections, in her Defence of Mr. Locke's Essay (1702), depicting his view as more dangerous for morality than Locke's. This paper shifts the focus from Cockburn's defence of Locke's moral thought, to her apology for his theory of personal identity, including his probabilistic arguments in favour of the immortality of the soul.
- This shift of focus yields an alternative account of Cockburn's originality: first, because she offered a nonsubstance interpretation of Locke's theory of personal identity, that, for its time, was unusual, and remains relevant for contemporary philosophical debates over Locke; and second, because, following Kristeller, in the very act of defending and articulating anew Locke's theory, Cockburn in some sense appropriated it. [Publisher's text].
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Rivista di storia della filosofia : LXXVI, 2, 2021-
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Código DOI: 10.3280/SF2021-002001
ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Locke, Cockburn, Personal Identity, Immortality, Nonsubstance reading
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