...not doubt the reality and limits of this self: "Self is that conscious thinking thing . . . which is conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness...for itself, as far as that consciousness extends" (pp. 458-459). Kant reduced primary qualities to primary concepts (to synthetic a priori judgments)....

...consciousness of sensations and perceptions. The 'Self, he writes, 'is that conscious thinking thing . . . which is sensible, or conscious of Pleasure and Pain, capable of Happiness or "0 Draft letter to the Countess of Peterborough (1697), Bodleian, MS. Locke c. 24, fos 196-7,1n Education,...

...substance, the sum res cogitans, met early resistance. Locke agreed that self was a conscious substance: Self is that conscious thinking thing whatever substance...made up of, (whether spiritual or material, simple or compound, it matters not) which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness...

...faculty whereby we experience pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. He tells us, for instance, that "Self is that conscious thinking thing, (whatever...and Pain, capable of Happiness or Misery, and so is concern'd for it self as far as that consciousness extends," 20 thus emphasizing the definition of...

...was done."24 But 'person' and 'self are not entirely identical. "Self is that conscious thinking — whatever substance made up of, (whether spiritual...concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends."25 The self seems to be needed to hold together the abstract person and the concrete, feeling...

...Dinge als wirklich außer uns befindlich ansehen, das 'K „Seif K that conscious thinking thing, ... which is sensible, or conscious of Pleasure and Pain, capable of Happiness or Misery, and so is concern'd for it seif, äs far äs that consciousness extends." Essay, II 27, 17, 341; Ph. B., Bd....

...argument that later ran together with a modern sense of estrangement and loss of self. When he said that 'Self is that conscious thinking thing (whatever Substance, made up of, whether Spiritual or Material . . .)', Locke appeared to say that the self disappears when there is no thought.18 Locke argued against...

...concerning Human Understanding. Forensic Selves Self, Locke argues, is "that conscious thinking thing . . . which is sensible, or conscious of Pleasure and Pain, capable of Happiness and Misery, and so is concern'd for it self, as far as that consciousness extends" (EHU 2.27.17). "Person"...

...series of experiences linked together in some subtle gap-indifferent way, or in the sense of a 'thing which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery', might survive, and be the bearer of responsibility for what that same person (in a new and rather peculiar...

...constituted around happiness and misery and therefore the self is always "self-concerned." "Self is ... conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concern'd for itself, as far as that consciousness extends." The self is decidedly self-interested,...