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- Don Garrett, The Idea of Self in Hume’s Treatise In: The Self.
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. [1] .
Hume’s account of the idea of self is highly distinctive but not fully elaborated. The first section of this chapter describes some of the most important roles that the idea of self plays in Hume’s Treatise, and it highlights three questions that naturally arise from this description.
The thesis investigates David Hume’s concept of the self as it is presented in Book One and Two of the Treatise of Human Nature. The center point of the discussion is Hume’s understanding of the self as the bundle of perceptions. It will be shown that such an account can maintain identity of the self as an imperfect identity.
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Much has been written on Hume and his treatment of personal identity and the self. However, what is generally lacking in the scholarship is a comprehensive account of the self and personal identity in the. Treatise. What Hume scholarship has thus far achieved is a piecemeal account of Hume's self. What my work aims to do is to give a
Terence Penelhum has written extensively about the role of the idea of the self in Hume's account of the emotional and moral life of persons. Overlooked, however, in Penelhum' s otherwise very comprehensive treatment of the idea of the self is the recognition of a change that takes place in the way that the idea of
Hume rejects the metaphysical substantial self, and thus denies the contingency of the relation between personal identity and continuity of properties. He also rejects metaphysical causal powers, and thus denies the contingency of the relation between causation and actual conjunctions of events.
Feb 26, 2001 · Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (b. 1711, d. 1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works— A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and ...
