THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity... The Principles of Psychology - الصفحة 349بواسطة William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 704عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Robert C. Solomon - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...with regard to selfidentity was brought to its conclusion, predictably, by David Hume, who argued: There are some philosophers who imagine we are every...intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we teel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration,... | |
| Robert Pasnau - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...mainstream. David Hume is perhaps most responsible for the present consensus, with his famous attack on "some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our Self" (Treatise I.iv.6, p. 251). Hume's own view is that "I never can catch myself at any time without a... | |
| Peter Reisinger - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...Nidditch, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978, 251 sqq. a. 633 sqq. D. Hume, Treatise... B. I, P. IV, eh. 6, 251: „There are some philosophers, who imagine, we are...moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF... Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded for... | |
| Marina Frasca-Spada - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...two sorts of personal identity into relation with one another' (p. 79). some philosophers, who . . . are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.22 So the scepticism of this section has a limited scope. The refutation is guided by the... | |
| Richard Mason - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...understanding of the nature of people: myself or others. 1 "There are some philosophers," wrote Hume, "who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity" 2 —and there is no need to take up a position on that. To believe that I understand myself is definitely... | |
| Luke Gibbons - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...'common sense' philosophy. In a well-known passage in A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume asserts that There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every...continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity . . . Unluckily all these... | |
| Catherine Jones - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...structuring forces of the self and the content of that structure. 16 Hume claims that the assertions of those philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self—that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence—are contrary to the very experience... | |
| Claudia M. Schmidt - 2010 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...populat belief among philosophets that "we ate evety moment intimately conscious of what we call out SELF; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and ate cettain, beyond the evidence of a demonsttation, both of its petfect identity and simplicity."... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...foundation of probability, as long as there is any resemblance remaining•. AGAINST PERSONAL IDENTITY There are some philosophers who imagine we are every...demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view,... | |
| Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...bravura chapter 'Of personal identity', and here Hume studiously dismantles commonsense assumptions that 'we are every moment intimately conscious of what...and its continuance in existence; and are certain ... of its perfect identity and simplicity'. Unable to detect a continuous or unitary self in his own... | |
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