The No-self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity

@article{Giles1993TheNT,
  title={The No-self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity},
  author={James Giles},
  journal={Philosophy East and West},
  year={1993},
  volume={43},
  pages={175}
}
  • James Giles
  • Published 1 April 1993
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy East and West
The problem of personal identity is often said to be one of accounting for what it is that gives persons their identity over time. However, once the problem has been construed in these terms, it is plain that too much has already been assumed. For what has been assumed is just that persons do have an identity. One of the first Western thinkers to argue for the non-existence of the self was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that the self was a fiction. A new… 
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