Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
The Ralston College Podcast
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Hume's Ethical Thoughts
If one develops a radical scepticism with respect to their being a self, if it is merely a bundle of perceptions, what basis would there be for any any moral responsibility? Well, hume himself doesn't explicitly draw the conclusions that i have said threaten us if we take this view. But interesting, interestingly enough, says, interesting that there's a kind of dislocation between what he says there and what he goes on to say in the ethical parts of ethical ad pythical parts of the treatise. Ultimately, for hume, as you know, you know, ethical principles arise wher. Ethical thinking arises not from principles, or from rules, or from some thesis about
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