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Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self

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What Makes You the Same Person as You?

Questions about what makes you a person have been central to discussions of personal identity and will continue to be central to philosophical identity as we continue to discuss it in the future. The essential thing iam suppose to understand about hume is that his philosophy is deeply empiricist. So there's a certain destructive element in hume when it comes to causality. In the hands of berkeley, he thought through material fire because he thought through substance. There are many examples of this sort of moral authority, perhaps plitical authority, among others. And i think it will probably be fair to say that when burlin wrote that hume was uniquely disturbing in his philosophy,  he must have

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