Sentence examples for earliest person from inspiring English sources

Socrates seems to have been the earliest person to think critically about the conditions of happiness, and how one could be happy, and in doing so he caused a shift in the way people thought about the subject.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was perhaps the earliest person to make the case for Mendelssohn, not Mozart, as the ultimate child prodigy: comparing their output at the same age was, he said, like comparing "the prattle of a child" to "the cultivated talk of a grown-up person".

Mr. Emmanuel was an early person of interest, but it is unclear whether he was interviewed.

One is the same person as the person who existed last week or many years ago if one has memories of the earlier person's conscious experiences.

An earlier "person of interest" who was said to have appeared at the scene has been identified and ruled out of the inquiry.

By Anne Carson If I were an early person I'd look for the limits of wisdom by going to sacred oak trees or the local blind man with lips on fire.

McMahan himself suggests that, in a conflict between an earlier person and a current nonperson, the interests of the earlier person ought to trump (McMahan 2002, 502-03).

On this view whether, for example, PB is identical with the earlier person with A's body depends on whether there is an equally good later candidate, such as PC, for being the earlier A-body person (Nozick 1981).

More controversially, I also argued that highly vital interests of the current nonperson ought to trump even some non-trivial, rather serious interests of the earlier person.

I have argued (Jaworska unpublished) that when the interests of the earlier person are relatively minor, substantial interests of the current nonperson ought to trump.

In cases where there is no branching psychological continuity is sufficient to ensure the identity of a later with an earlier person.