What is the meaning of the word “person,” according to Locke?

1. What is the meaning of the word “person,” according to Locke?

2. When Locke talks about “consciousness extending backwards to any past action or thought,” he is referring to our ability to remember past actions or thoughts. (When we remember, we are conscious of our past actions and thoughts.) What does memory have to do with personal identity, according to Locke?
3. Locke imagines that he remembers seeing Noah’s ark (which supposedly existed thousands of years ago) just as well as he remembers seeing the Thames River in London overflow just the previous winter. (Of course he doesn’t really remember Noah’s ark – it’s a thought experiment.) What is the point he is making?
PART 2
1. What, according to Mills, is the difference between the way Western philosophy has (historically) discussed women, and the way it has discussed Black people
2. Mills ends a long paragraph on pages 3-4 with this line:
“They know that what is in the books is largely mythical as a general statement of principles, that it was never intended to be applicable to them in the first place, but that within the structure of power relations, as part of the routine, one has to pretend that it does.”
How do you understand the point he is making? Feel free to connect it to other things he says in the essay.
3. Towards the end, Mills argues that the issue he is addressing in the essay is not purely an issue of “multiculturalism” or “promoting diversity.” Why not?

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