David Hume Identity

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In Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion we are introduced to three characters that serve the purpose to debate God and his nature, more specifically, what can mankind infer about God and his nature. The three characters; Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes all engage in a debate concerning this question and they all serve the purpose of supporting their views on the subject. It is the “argument from design” put forth by Cleanthes that is the focal point of the discussion, and it is Demea and Philo who attempt to discredit it.

despondent marriage. Tom is depicted as a grumpy person, his significant other would conceal nourishment from him

Nemo always displays quite a bit of determination although at first it is misconstrued as being headstrong or willful. Upon hearing the encouraging news of his father's search for him, he executes an especially daring feat with a sudden rejuvenated burst of determination. He displays even more determination to be reunited with his father by pulling of a clever act that lands him in the sewer and on his way to the ocean to find his father. Here Nemo showed another gritty trait known as resilience. In the Perlis article, 5 Characteristics Of Grit: How Many Do You Have?, she states Andrew Zolli’s opinion on resilience which to him is, “ a dynamic combination of optimism, creativity, and confidence, which together empower one to reappraise situations and regulate emotion. ” (…

The purpose of this essay is to define what Personal Identity is by analyzing John Locke’s argument for Personal Identity. John Locke’s argument for Personal Identity will be examined, in order to establish a better understanding of whether or not the argument for personal identity could be embraced. In order to do so, the essay will i) State and explain Locke’s argument that we are not substances or mere souls and ii) State and explain Locke’s concept of personal identity and its relations to what he calls self, consciousness and punishment. This essay will also focus on Thomas Reid’s perspective on personal identity and iii) State and explain Reid’s criticisms of Locke’s theory of personal identity, and lastly iv) I will evaluate whether or not Reid’s objections are good. Locke’s argument may seem to be plausible at first, however, the essay will conclude by rejecting John Locke’s argument for personal identity due to Locke’s inadequate reasonings and Thomas Reid’s criticisms.

To this, I say that despite that truth, the testimony of others he calls into question was obtained by their first hand sense, and prior to that, their senses and so, into an infinite regress. What make our senses so much better than theirs? At what point do we start to believe others? There is no other way to live life and obtain new knowledge and progress in life. If we accepted his premise that information from others is less reliable and therefore not good to trust, it means we would all have to have seen everything first hand in order to believe it. For example, we know that people have visited the North Pole, and taken information about the climate, wildlife and so on, but if we haven’t been there ourselves, we should call into question. We believe they went, because the information and events were recorded by means of writing, and has been distributed to others. While we can’t 100% trust that people have visited the North Pole because we didn’t witness it ourselves, we do accept at least small parts of it as true. Similarly with the apostles accounts of Jesus’ miracles, they wrote down what they saw, thus giving it some element of truth. Another example is an argument between two groups of scientists in the topic of particle physics. One group argued energy travelled as a wave, while the other argued that it moved as particles. Although the

“One Self or Many Selves” givens a claim that: “In sort, change the situation and you change my

Captain Nemo is a serious, slightly rude, dynamic character. He changes a lot throughout the book. At first, he is very introverted and likes to keep to himself. Around the end of the book, before he leaves the three guys on an island, he starts to reach out to others, especially Arronax. I think he started to get frightened that he would become attached to Arronax, and that's why he threw them off. He didn't want anything to get in the way of his explorations.

Personal identity, in a philosophical point of view, is the problem of explaining what makes a person numerically the same over a period of time, despite the change in qualities. The major questions answered by Locke were questions concerning the nature of identity, persons, and immorality (Jacobsen, 2016). This essay will discuss the three themes John Locke presents in his argument regarding personal identity, which are, the concept of categories, substance vs. man vs. person, and the continuity of consciousness.

     Hume on the other hand, took a different approach to the idea of self. He believed that there in fact was no such thing as selfhood. Instead he asserts that “it must be some one impression, that gives rise to every real idea. But self…is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference…” (597). By this he implies that in order to form concrete ideas, ones impressions of pain, pleasure, joy, etc. must be invariable throughout time. This, Hume states, we know without a doubt to be impossible. Passions succeed each other over time and give rise to new passions, therefore “…it cannot be from any of these impressions…that the idea of self is derived, and consequently there is no such idea” (597).

In his essay Of Identity and Diversity, Locke talks about the importance of personal identity. The title of his essay gives an idea of his view. Identity, according to Locke, is the memory and self consciousness, and diversity is the faculty to transfer memories across bodies and souls. In order to make his point more understandable, Locke defines man and person. Locke identifies a man as an animal of a certain form and a person as a thinking intelligent being. Furthermore, to Locke, a person has reasons and reflections and can consider itself as being itself in different times and places; and he/she does it with his/her consciousness (429). Basically, personal self is a particular body and personal identity is consciousness. In this

John Locke believed, the enduring self is defined by a person’s memory. With memory there is an enduring self, and without it there is no self at all. I believe there is an enduring self, but it is a little more complicated than that. Even if a person encounters a dramatic change to his/her life, they are still the same self, the same person. I believe memory is not the only factor that defines the self. Many things form this enduring self, and these things work together to form an identity, to form who you are now. These things are your memories, your experiences and your personality. You may change and grow over time as you are exposed to new experiences, but under it all you are still ....you. But is a

Personal identity is a concept within philosophy that has persisted throughout its history. In the eighteenth century this problem came to a head. David Hume dedicated a portion of his philosophy in the attempts to finally put what he saw as a fallacious claim concerning the soul to rest. In the skeptical wake of Hume, German idealist, beginning with Immanuel Kant, were left with a variety of epistemic and metaphysical problems, the least of which was personal identity.

Moving forward the other philosophers that have differing opinions on the concept of person identity were David Humes and Rick Parfit. David Hume argued that human beings are not completely real. Instead he believed that “our identity as subjects of conscious experience and of practical agency which

Carl Jung’s concept of individuation is the quest for wholeness in which the subject becomes conscious of themselves as unique and distinct. Seated very much in the tradition of enlightenment, the idea places emphasis on the individual 's capacity to gain further understanding and knowledge through analysis and reasoning, investing the individual with the power to defy trends and avoid group think. Imagine a tiny pebble thrown into a pond, causing a rippling effect through the surrounding water. Although the pebble is small, it causes multiple ripples that significantly change the pond, even if temporarily. Similarly, a single character in a novel can cause ripples in the lives of other characters. Our actions and choices are capable of causing ripples in the 'ponds ' of other 's realities, even those largely disconnected from our own. These ripples shape a person 's impression of individuality and of their Self. In Robertson Davies’ ‘Fifth Business’, even the minor characters that Dunstan Ramsay encounters, as well as his various experiences have different degrees of impact on his process of Individuation. Throughout the novel, Dunstan is self-reflective and becomes aware not only of how he is being shaped, but of himself as an identifiable form, at once shaped by his environment and propelled by his will. Carl Jung defined an archetype as "[an] original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol