  It was not until John Locke that there was an explicit attempt to  connect personal identity with broader ethical concerns. Locke  famously called “person” a forensic term,  “appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to  intelligent agents capable of a law, and happiness, and misery” (Locke 1694, 50–51). This means that an account of the  identity of persons across time will have forensic –  normative – implications. And so it does.