Consciência e reflexão no Ensaio de Locke
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-8863.discurso.2022.200495Keywords:
History of philosophy, consciousness, reflection, John LockeAbstract
The paper discusses the notions of ‘consciousness’ and ‘reflection’ in John Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding. It attempts to present two criteria by means of which it would be possible to distinguish between these mental activities. Firstly, consciousness is a passive, involuntary activity and does not depend on attention to be exerted, unlike reflection, which is, at least in one of its degrees – since Locke conceives the existence of two degrees of reflection – , an active, voluntary, and attentive activity of mind. Secondly, consciousness may be distinguished from reflection in that it is a mental activity that produces judgments / beliefs, unlike reflection, whose activities only produce ideas. While consciousness allows human beings to know – to judge about and to believe the existence of their mental phenomena – , reflection is only a mental capacity to have ideas and, as such, it is not true or false.
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