PHIL 1100 Midterm: hume

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: Brian Dunn

Document Summary

Hume believes there is no underlying constant self-overtime, that our beliefs, perceptions, ideologies, emotions are all constantly changing. I will defend the thesis that there is no unifying self. I will be defending premise that i (an hour ago) is not the same as i (now), therefore there is no unifying self. I will defend against the arguments that the self and indentical can be understood differently. I will refute this with the argument of the nature of changes and experience. The view that there is no unchanging self is true, and the argument against a constant self is unsound, because the identity of properties is required for an unchanging self. I will be defending premise 6 from the argument. Another challenge against the premise is what we constitute as being identical. When we question what is considered to be identical we are framing it as what it means to be identical in the modern sense of the world.