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Understanding The Self Notes
Understanding The Self Notes
RENE DESCARTES: I think, therefore I am DAVID HUME: self is the bundle theory of mind
“What then am I? A thinking thing...” -an empiricist who believe that one can only
know through senses and experiences. (a person
-There is so much to doubt since much of knows someone because he sees, sense or touch
what we think and believe is not infallible and him)
may turn out to be false.
-He said that self is a bundle of impressions.
-One cannot doubt is the existence of self. The self is bundle/ collection of various
-For him, Self is combination of 2 entities. perceptions which succeed each other with an
1. COGITO (mind: thing that thinks) inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux.
2. EXTENZA (body: like a machine attached (Self is collection of all experiences with a
to the mind) particular being) These can be categorized
-Human has body but that’s not what make into two:
human a human, it’s the mind. Impression- basic objects of our experience, it
-Mind and body are independent to each other forms core of our thoughts (direct experience)
but must use both to develop himself.