Hume and Kames on the Self and Personal Identity
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Original language name
Hume and Kames on the Self and Personal Identity
Original language description
"I lik't exceedingly your Method of explaining personal Identity as more satisfactory than any thing that had ever occur'd to me", wrote David Hume in July 1746 in a letter to Henry Home (later made Lord Kames - I refer to him as to Kames in the following text). Was Hume just polite, or did he really mean it? We do not know for sure: very likely both aspects are present, but it is not clear in what proportion. But we do know that, in his mature writings, Hume indeed omitted very much of what he had had to say about the Self and personal identity in the Treatise of Human Nature.Did the omission result from Hume's conviction that Kames' theory surpasses his own and makes it superfluous? Also, did Hume's notoriously incomprehensible recantations in the Appendix to the Treatise (published in November 1740) result from his reaction to Kames' criticism that took place probably in the spring 1739? While I shall not be able to provide any final answer to these questions, I hope that my discussion will somewhat advance our understanding of the problem.Since the extent and depth of the philosophical companionship between Hume and Kames has not been widely recognized yet, I begin with an introductory section describing the four main stages of their philosophical interaction (section 1). Next, I proceed with discussing Kames' essay "Of the Idea of Self and of Personal Identity", published in his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (section 2), and then I turn to Hume's own texts dealing with our topic, especially in the Treatise of Human Nature (section 3). In section 4, I conclude by attempting to determine how far the consideration of his companionship with Kames helps to elucidate Hume's own curious development.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Hume on the Self and Personal Identity
ISBN
978-3-031-04274-4
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
85-104
Number of pages of the book
345
Publisher name
Springer Nature
Place of publication
Basel
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