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Personal Identity: A Defence of Locke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

M. W. Hughes
M. W. Hughes
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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The theory of personal identity should illuminate and be illuminated by the theory of personality, of which it is a part. I believe that Locke's theory succeeds in this more than that of any other great philosopher, and the modifications which it may need are not fundamental ones. The problems raised by Butler and Flew can be made to disappear.

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Philosophy , Volume 50 , Issue 192 , April 1975 , pp. 169 - 187
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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