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Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism /
This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a str...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
2008.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (539 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110327076 3110327074 3938793791 9783938793794 311032668X 9783110326680 |