...in addition to these, some single item that one could identify as one's own self. As Hume puts it: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...catch myself at any time without a perception, and can never observe anything but the perception. ... If any one, upon serious and unprejudic'd reflexion,...

...to be. David Hume among western philosophers had a view of the self closest to that of the Buddha: When I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.5 From this Hume concluded that we are nothing but a bundle or collection...

...encountered difficulty with the subject. "When I enter most intimately into what I call myself" he noted, "I always stumble on some particular perception or...perception, and never can observe anything but the perception."59 Existential skepticism turned into existential crisis in the modern period, as thinkers...

...form of the problem in modern Western philosophy, Bermudez cites a well-known passage from David Hume: "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never catch myself at any time without a perception, and can never observe anything but the perception" (Hume...

...some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception....

...capable of happiness or misery. . . ."" Whereas in "The Treatise of Human Nature" Hume asserts that "when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure."14 For Locke the self is "that conscious thinking thing" which disciplines sensation; reason...

...picture of the self. Hume famously denied that any such thing as a self was manifest in our experience: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what...always stumble on some particular perception or other. ... 1 never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the...

...bundle of perceptions enters most intimately into what it calls itself, the bundle always stumbles on some particular perception or other, of heat or...light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. The bundle never can catch itself at any time without perception and never can observe anything but...

...(252); "there is properly not simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different" (253). Hence "when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...always stumble on some particular perception or other. ... I can never catch myself ' . . . without a perception. . . . When my perceptions are remov'd for...

...most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other. ... I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.31 However, like Dennett, Hume was not a complete skeptic about the self. He conceded that...