Topic > John Locke's Theory of Personal Identity - 844

Olson in “Personal Identity” illustrates his concern by giving us the example of a young student who becomes a lawyer, the lawyer remembers having paid a fine as a child for a library overdue books but when the lawyer becomes an old woman, the woman attends law school but no longer pays the fine. According to Locke's theory the lawyer is the child, and the old woman is the lawyer but not the child. This is a result that should not be possible due to the law of