English · Early modern philosophy; later psychology and neuroscience
consciousness
Heard as KON-shuss-ness
- Period
- seventeenth century philosophical sense onward
- Semantic range
- Psychological awareness, inner sense, later phenomenal experience, access, self-consciousness.
- What it can mean
- In Cudworth, inner awareness with grades. In Locke, perception of what passes in one's own mind, later bound to personal identity.
- What it should not be equated with
- Not invented by Cudworth as a phenomenon. Not a clean replacement for conscience. Not a universal translation of xin, citta, or nafs.
- Primary or early source
- Cudworth 1678; Locke 1690 and 1694; later James.
- Scholarly source
- SEP seventeenth-century theories; Weinberg; Thiel.
- Relation to other terms
- The modern gathering word. This project studies how it gathered.