...After what manner, therefore, do they belong to self; and how are they connected with it ? For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch mysilf at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my...

...this with great distinctness in an often-quoted passage of the Treatise on Human Nature. "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."...

...enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain...without a perception, and never can observe anything brut the perception." Starting out from metaphysical speculations, Spinoza, whose theory, it must be...

...from Hume, in which he proclaims the reduction of the self to a flux of impressions : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...and never can observe anything but the perception. ... If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different idea of himself,...

...from Hume, in which he proclaims the reduction of the self to a flux of impressions: " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without ^/^v^ ^ a perception, and never can observe anything but the per- c < "*!" ception. . . . If any one,...

...flux of impressions : " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I al ways stumble on some particular perception or other, of...and never can observe anything but the perception. ... If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different idea of himself,...

...detcrininist school in modern times) says (Treatise on Human Nature, Book I., Part IV., section vi.) : "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure" ; and he consequently concludes that the self or personality is "nothing but a bundle or collection...

...paragraph concerning the impossibility of there being any such thing as a distinct self: — " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by 1 Martineau, A Study of Religion,...

...paragraph concerning the impossibility of there being any such thing as a distinct self: — " For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myielf at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. When my...

...experience, may be admitted to elude psychological observation. As Hume says : " I never can catch myself fA any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception" — ie, it is the empirical ego, or mind with its content of experience, which is the object of psychological...