Open AccessJohn locke on personal identityFNx08
Author(s) -
Namita Nimbalkar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
mens sana monographs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0973-1229
pISSN - 1998-4014
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1229.77443
Subject(s) - personal identity , soul , consciousness , identity (music) , psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , self , aesthetics
John Locke speaks of personal identity and survival of consciousness after death. A criterion of personal identity through time is given. Such a criterion specifies, insofar as that is possible, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the survival of persons. John Locke holds that personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity. He considered personal identity (or the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.