John Locke: Identity, Persons, and Personal Identity

Redefining Personhood: A Synoptic Analysis of Human Subjectivity from Legal and Human Rights Perspective

“…Thus, viewed both from its legal and philosophical attributes, personhood has been approached and influenced heavily by historic and cultural transitions. Like the notions of "humanhood", personhood also combine and carry the theoretical and conjectural burdens of multifaceted visionaries: from Boethius's theory of "individual substance of a rational nature" (Koterski, 2004) to John Locke's "self-consciousness-based definition" (Boeker, 2013) or Emmanuel Kant's moral-philosophical definition of the person (Johnson & Cureton, 2016), to the world of tomorrow that is naturally expected to explore avenues addressing new, complex issues and concerns that is likely to emerge pacing with the acceleration of technological advances.…”