The Troublesome Concept of the Person: Assessing Lockes Theories on Human Understanding
John Locke’s classic essay “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” Locke approaches the concept of the individual as not innate but rather created through the conditional environment in which the individual resides. In modern bioethics, this understanding of the self suggests that there is no need to include morality within the debate. This topic is expressed in comparing Locke's theories to those of another essayist's.