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Notes to Locke on Personal Identity
1. Unless noted, all references to Locke’s Essay are to Nidditch’s edition (L-N): Book, Chapter, Section.
2. For a discussion of the ways in which the place-time-kind principle has been interpreted by Locke scholars, see Jessica Gordon-Roth’s “Locke’s Place-Time-Kind Principle” (2015) in Philosophy Compass.
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In addition, it appears that Locke is open to the possibility of non-human persons.
John locke personhood development
This comes through in the “rational parrot” passage, or L-N 2.27.8. In this passage, Locke describes a traveler’s tale which depicts a parrot who converses as a rational creature. Locke then intimates that while we might be tempted to call this parrot a “person,” we would never be tempted to call him a “man”.
It is thus not only the case that Locke distinguishes between the term “man” and the term “person”, and asserts that the identity of persons