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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“But is not a man drunk and sober the same person? why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXVII (§22 in standard numbering) (Project Gutenberg #10615)
An objection Locke raises against his own theory; he answers that human courts cannot tell real from counterfeit amnesia.
Citation: "But is not a man drunk and sober the same person? why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXVII (§22 in standard numbering) (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q9)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
