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Personal Identity: Locke and Hume

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Have a little read: ... Topic 2: Personal Identity In this essay I intend on giving an account of why Locke believes we must understand personal identity as a 'unity of consciousness' via an explanation and evaluation of his reasoning and make a comparison with David Hume's 'bundle theory'. Moreover I will outline why I believe Hume account to be more the more plausible, and yet doesn't quite go far enough in giving us a complete understanding of personal identity. John Locke was concerned with providing a theory of personal identity, or 'self', in order to gauge how moral responsibility could be accredited to a person and thus a justification of guilt found. To him, the self wasn't a substance of the body, or the soul, but rather was to be based in a human's consciousness. To the extent that a person is conscious of past and future thoughts and actions, in the same manner

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