PHI 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Existentialism, Michel De Montaigne, Antihero
5 Feb 2018
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A description of human nature and behaviour. The influence of montaigne (30 years difference, one generation apart) All the world"s a stage" (as you like it, act 2, scene 7) Cannot be categorized like most of us. Hume: scottish, there is no self, the mind is a theatre, your mind is conscience of impressions one after the other (but you never catch yourself in it, skeptical of the notion of the self. Montaigne: 200 years before hume, had similar perceptions of the self, i don"t see myself, therefore there is no self . Beginning of the play: 1. 1, 1-5; 1. 1, 15-17, no one says who they are, question of identity of characters (not fully endorsing the self) Horatio and hamlet framing the question of the self: 1. 2, 160-165, horatio it looks like the king, exactly like you look like yourself. Hamlet"s central question in the play: who am i?". The problem of the knowledge of other minds.
