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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was the same MAN”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXVII (§15 in standard numbering) (Project Gutenberg #10615)
The prince-and-cobbler thought experiment separating personal identity from bodily identity.
Citation: "every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was the same MAN" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXVII (§15 in standard numbering) (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q8)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
