...provided that there is independent confirmation of the action. PHIL. §17. 'Every one finds [daily] that whilst comprehended under that consciousness, the little finger is as much a part of it self [(of him)]2 as what is most so.' THEO. I have said (§ 1 1) why I would not wish to maintain...

...conscious thinking — whatever substance made up of, (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not) — which is sensible or conscious...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....

...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,...

...shared the same consciousness" (p. 241). Locke defines "self as being "a conscious thinking thing, conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself' (ibid, 27, sect. 17). Person is the name for this self, a thinking, intelligent being, one that has...

...thinking thing, (whatever substance made up of whether spiritual, or material, simple, or compounded, it matters not) which is sensible, or conscious of...for itself, as far as that consciousness extends. . . . That with which the consciousness of this present thinking thing can join itself, makes the same...

...thinking thing,—whatever substance made up of, (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not) — which is sensible or conscious...that consciousness, the little finger is as much a par t of himself as what is most so. Upon separation of this little finger, should this consciousness...

...thinking thing (whatever substance made up of, whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not) which is sensible, or conscious of...concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends (Ixxke, 1963, p. 62). Locke embraces the concept of thinking in a very broad sense: it seems to comprise...