In This Selection Hume Argues That a Person Does Not

question 12

Multiple Choice

In this selection Hume argues that a person does not have a self. He says that learning comes from sensory impressions and that there does not seem to be a separate impression of the self that we experience. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that we have a self. The most with which we can identify ourselves is our consciousness, and that constantly changes. There is no separate, permanent self that endures over time; personal identity is a fiction.
-According to Hume, ideas must come from impressions, but there is no impression from which the idea of self comes; therefore,

• A) we know from reasoning that the self exists.
• B) the soul exists.
• C) the self is hidden to us.
• D) there is no self.

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