Hume, Personal Identity, and the Experimental Method
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David Hume, personal identity, empiricism, passions, sympathy, moral agencyAbstract
The article focuses on the connection between David Hume’s explication of personal identity and what is supposed to be “experimental reasoning” introduced to moral subjects which the subtitle to the Treatise on Human Nature announces. On the basis of the results of analyses of the role of passions in creating personal identity I argue for the general coherence of Hume’s work. According to the interpretation, Hume’s intention was to present the multidimensionality of human identity in which the autobiographical construction of memory and understanding is supplemented with the identity built upon social relations. Eventually, personal identity finds its fulfilment in a person’s moral agency which reveals its practical dimension.
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