LECTURE IV 



PERSONALITY 



IN the previous lectures I have endeavoured 

 to follow out what is involved in our experi 

 ence of living organisms looked at from a 

 purely biological standpoint. - Actually, how 

 ever, the higher organisms display characters 

 which do not belong to the conception of them 

 as mere organisms : for they are conscious in 

 conscious relations of perception and active 

 response with their environment. 



Let us try to realise more clearly what is 

 involved in the conception of a conscious 

 organism, or person. From the discussion in 

 the previous lecture it is evident that we can 

 not mean an organism lighted up, as it were, 

 by flashes of consciousness : for isolated flashes 

 of consciousness, as Kant showed, do not exist. 

 We must therefore put entirely out of court 

 the theory that conscious life is simply a series 



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