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  I think that Locke's arguments for his ideas are sound, and I agree with what he is saying.
 Locke was a micro based ideologist.  He believed that humans were autonomous individuals who, although lived in a social setting, could not be articulated as a herd or social animal.  Locke believed person to stand for, a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable  from thinking.  This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality.  All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference.  Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience......

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