Doctor Benway (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} doctor_benway) wrote,@ 2004-11-12 12:40:00 |
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We now proceed to explain the nature of personal identity, which has become so great a question in philosophy, especially of late years, in England, where all the more abstruse sciences are studied with a peculiar ardor and application... The identity which we ascribe to the mind of man is only a fictitious one and of a like kind with that which we ascribe to vegetables and animal bodies.
Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature
Hume is fucking hilarious. He is so bitter and skeptical and goofy. Too bad they stuffed one of his colleagues instead of him-- he'd make quite the imposing conversation piece (of furniture).
Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature
Hume is fucking hilarious. He is so bitter and skeptical and goofy. Too bad they stuffed one of his colleagues instead of him-- he'd make quite the imposing conversation piece (of furniture).
