PHIL 1100 Midterm: good hume
20 Oct 2017
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Hume believes there is no underlying constant self-overtime, that our beliefs, perceptions, ideologies, emotions are all constantly changing. I will be defending premise 6; that i (an hour ago) am not the same as i (now), therefore there is no unifying self. I will defend against the arguments that the self and identical can be understood differently. I will refute this with hume s argument of the nature of changes and experience. I will defend the thesis that there is no unifying self. 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. This premise relies upon 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.
