PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Personal Identity, Fatalism
17 Mar 2016
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David hume: we have no substanial self with which we are idenical. Hue argues against the ego theory of personal idenity: no one experiences a soul in hume"s view. Hume"s theory of personal idenity is known as the bundle theory. He argues that although most of us think that we are aware of some coninued self, we are mistaken. We have no real idea of self because there is no experience that would give us such an idea. There is no impression from which it could be derived. If an impression could give us an idea of self, than that impression would have to be the same throughout our enire lives. Feelings, experiences, and sensaions never exist all at the same ime. The can be considered apart from one another, and can exist apart from one another. Whenever we try to catch our self all we ind is some percepion.
