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1. www3.nd.edu › 20208 › hume-personal-identityHume on identity over time and persons - University of Notre Dame

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   Hume begins his discussion of personal identity by, strikingly, denying that we have any idea of the self: “There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment conscious of

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2. link.springer.com › content › pdfHume on the Self and Personal Identity - Springer

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   ‘Husserl (and Brentano) on Hume’s Notion of the Self’ is an outcome of the project ‘Virtues Old and New: Virtue Ethics in Hume and Mandeville’ (Czech Science Foundation).

3. www.fitelson.org › confirmation › hume_enquiryDAVID HUME An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - Fitelson

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   1859, Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.

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4. philonotes.com › david-humes-concept-of-the-selfDavid Hume’s Concept of the Self - PHILO-notes

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   May 16, 2022 · David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an illusion.

5. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfHume and the Self at a Moment - JSTOR

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   HUME AND THE SELF AT A MOMENT Cindy D. Stern HUME'S discussion of personal identity is concerned with the problem of identity over time. It is thus fitting that the vast body of literature addressing Hume's discussion focuses on this issue. However, Hume's account of the identity of a person over a stretch of time has consequences

6. unreasonable.blog › resources › excerptsHume on the self - unreasonable.blog

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   Hume on the self. For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.

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   Does Hume affirm or deny the idea of the self?

   • First, we have to remember that Hume neither affirms nor denies the idea of the self. It’s just that for Hume, talking about it simply doesn’t make sense. The reason behind Hume’s claim that there is no such thing as the idea of the self can be gleaned from his theory of ideas. So, on Hume’s theory of ideas.

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   Why is Hume's concept of the self an illusion?

   • David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an illusion.

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   What does Hume mean by the idea of the self?

   • However, for Hume, like the idea of an ultimate or necessary cause, the idea of a “self” is a mere fiction. Again, the idea of the self is anything but a bundle of impressions or, in other words, the idea of the self is just a supposition. Indeed, for Hume, the idea of the self is simply an idea and there is no guarantee that it exists in reality.

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   What did Hume say about human reason?

   • Over a century before Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species of 1859, Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.

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   Why did Hume want to 'avoid absurdities and contradictions'?

   • ridicule . . . ignorant: Hume has a speci fic motive for wanting to ‘avoid absurdities and contradictions’, because these sorts of paradoxes were standardly used to promote religion by showing the weakness of mere human reason (thus supposedly making room for faith).

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   Was Hume Incon-sistent in referring to objects' powers?

   • . 7 7: this note was added in the edition, and seems 1750 designed to obviate an objection made by Kames, that Hume was incon-sistent in referring to objects’ powers in the previous three sentences, when Section VII will go on to deny that objects in themselves strictly have any powers.

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8. davidhume.org › texts › empl1Hume Texts Online - David Hume

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   A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.