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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 40

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  1. The Original of our Ideas.
  2. chink, and thence dra this infallible Consequence, Thac there is Tome-
  3. thine in us, that has a Porver to Think: But Whecher that Substance per-
  4. Detually thinks, or no, wre can be no Carther altured, than fxperience in-
  5. FOrmS uS. For to lay, that actual thinleins is essential ro the Soul, arid
  6. inseparable trom it, is, to beg erhat is in uection, and nor to vrove it by
  7. Rcalons; Wrhich is necessarr to bedone, it it De noc a lelF evident Propo.
  8. lition. Buc Whether this, That the Soul alvars thints, De a selFcvident Pro-
  9. polition, chat every Body assenrs to at tust hearitis, I appeal IOMat
  10. Kind.
  11. 5. Fr. TGranE Fhat the Soul in a wabeins Man is never rithont thoustE,
  12. becaule it is the condition of beins arakce: But whether Acepins with
  13. out dreamins be nOc an AAection of the whole Mar, Mind as Well aS
  14. Body, may be wortha walcins Mans Consideration; it beins hard to con-
  15. ceire, that any thing Mould think, and not be conscious ot it. IF che
  16. Soul doth thint in a scepine Man, Writhout beins conscious ot ic, I ast
  17. erhecher, during sueh chinking, it has any Pleasure or Pain, or De capable
  18. offappiness orMiserr: Tam sure the Man isnot, no more thanthe Bed
  19. Or Farth he lies on. For to behappr ormilerable rithout beine conscious
  20. oF it, seems to me utterly inconsittent andimpoltible. Or il it be possiblo,
  21. chat the Soul can, whilstthe Body is Pcepins, have its Thinkins, Fnjoz-
  22. ments, and Concerns; its Pleasure er Pain avart, Which theMan is not
  23. conscious ot, nor partakies in, It is certain, chat Socrates allecp, and So-
  24. crates awatse, is not the lame Perton; but his Soul when he Accps, and
  25. Socrates the Man consiltins of Body and Soul when he is matrins, are two
  26. Persons: Since akrins Socrates, has no Rnomledse ot, or Concernment
  27. For that Llappinels, or Misery of his Soul, wrhich it enjors alone by it selt
  28. Whilst he Aceps, without perceivins anr chins olic, no more than he has
  29. For theFrappiness, or Misery oEa Man inthe Indies, irhom he bnorrs not.
  30. For il re calce irholly aivar ai Consciounels ol our Actions and sensa-
  31. tiors, especially oF Pleasure and Pain, and the concerment that accompa-
  32. nies it, it ill be hard eo kenom Wrherein to place personal Identitr.
  33. 5. F2. The Soul, durino Cound Slecp, thinEs, Pay chese Men. Whilst it
  34. thintes and perceires, it is capable certaintr ot those ot Delioht Or Prou-
  35. ble, as Well as any other Perceptions; and it must necessarily be conscious of
  36. its onn Perceptions. But it has alt ehis a part: The Acepine Plan, eis plain,
  37. is conseious of noching oF all this. Let us suppose then the Soul ol C’astor,
  38. Wrhils heisscepirio, retired From his Body, irtich is no imporsible Sup-
  39. polition Cor the Nen I hare here to do rith, irhro (o liberally allor
  40. Lile, without a thinkrine soul to all ocher Animals. These Nen carinot
  41. then judge it is imipossible, or a contradiction, That the Body Chould live
  42. vithout the soul; nor thatthe soul sublists and thinkes, or has Perce.
  43. ption, even Perception of Flappiness or Misery, Withour the BodY. Letus
  44. then, a5 P sar, suppose the Soul oF castor separated, durins his Slcop From
  45. tiis Bodr, to thinke apart. Let us suppole too, that it chooles Forits Scene
  46. of Thinkins, che Bocy oFanotherMan, 2. 8. Pollux, vrhois Acepins without
  47. a Soul: For if Castors Soul, can think Whilst Castor is alleep, rtrat Castor is
  48. rever conscious oF, tis no matter what Place it chooles to thint in. We
  49. travehere then the Bodies oF trro Men rith onls one soul beturcen them,
  50. ertrich re will saxpose toecp and ake br turns; and the soul stilt think-
  51. ins inthe akrino Man, Whercosthe Reopins Man is never conscious, has
  52. never the least Perception. Pasic then, Whether Castor and Pollux, thus
  53. ith only one soul becreen them, Which chinles and perceives in onc,
  54. Wtrat Fre other iS neVex COnSCIOUS OF, nOr is BOF Concerned FOP, arC NOt
  55. ruo isdisinct PerlonS, as Castor and Hercules; Or, 20 Socrates, 2nd Plaio
  56. WeTO:

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 40. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0056?run=74