Rene Descartes is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy."
The human person is thought to have a body.
as well as a mind In his well-known treatises, he mentions meditation.
He believes that there is so much of the original philosophy.
There's a lot to be skeptical about. He even goes so far as to claim that much of what we think and
believe isn't infallible. It's possible that they'll turn out to be false. Only something which can withstand
the test of doubt should be believed.
If there was something so obvious and unmistakable that it could not be questioned.
Descartes claimed that the mind is the seat of our consciousness because of his ties to dualism. It gives
us our identity and sense of self because it holds our desires, intelligence, and passions. ... He also
thought that the concept of a mind controlling the body was as absurd as the concept of spirits
manipulating machines.
The chapter was added by JHON LOCKE (1632–1704).
in which he deals with people and their perseverance
conditions (Chapter 27 of Book 2) to the second
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was published in a new version in
only after being persuaded to do so in 1694
Nonetheless, Locke's handling of personal identity is one of the most disputed and controversial areas of
his corpus, according to William Molyneux (1692–1693). Locke's study of persons drew a lot of attention
from his contemporaries, sparked a fiery debate about personal identity, and continues to influence and
enlighten debates about people and their persistence conditions. This entry seeks to clarify the
essentials of Locke's view on persons and personal identification before moving on to sections of the
text that are still contested by philosophers today trying to make sense of Locke's conception of
persons. It then considers how Locke's discussion of persons was received by his contemporaries, before
concluding with a brief discussion of how metaphysicians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
have reacted to Locke's views, giving the reader a sense of Locke's enduring impact and influence on the
debate over personal identity.