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Hume's labyrinth : a search for the self / by Alan Schwerin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443839471
  • 1443839477
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hume's labyrinth.DDC classification:
  • 190 23
LOC classification:
  • B1499.S45 S39 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
pt. 1. The appendix and the self -- pt. 2. The treatise and the self -- pt. 3. Alternative theories and the labyrinth.
Summary: In his magnum opus David Hume asserts that a person is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other Other an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his bold thesis, as is borne out by his categorical arguments and analyses on the self. Contributions like this will, in his opinion, help establish a new science of human nature, "which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much s ...
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)524465

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The appendix and the self -- pt. 2. The treatise and the self -- pt. 3. Alternative theories and the labyrinth.

In his magnum opus David Hume asserts that a person is "nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other Other an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his bold thesis, as is borne out by his categorical arguments and analyses on the self. Contributions like this will, in his opinion, help establish a new science of human nature, "which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much s ...