Is the self being or not beng?and,Is our self change or not change? This is a common question. But this is a basic question in our life.
In Buddisim, everything is change andchange, and all things are not stationary. All things are created from nothi...
Is the self being or not beng?and,Is our self change or not change? This is a common question. But this is a basic question in our life.
In Buddisim, everything is change andchange, and all things are not stationary. All things are created from nothing, and all things return to nothing. All beings come from nothing and return to nothing. And all beings are move and move. Also the self is move and move.
In Western philosophy. D. Hume raise a question about the being of self. By Hume's Argument the self is nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an in conceivable rapidity, and are in perceptual flux and movement. But Descartes insist that the self is fixed. Although all perceptions are flux and movement, the self go beyond all perceptions. The self is transcendence. And the attribute of self is thinking. I thingk,therefore Iam. It is seperated from perception. It is substantia cogitans.
In kant's view, the self has two characteristics. The one is transcendental self, and the other is empirical self. Then I intend to arrange kantian views.
First the transcendental self is pure intelligence. It is independent from all sensible expeience. But it is different from the concept of the self of Descartes. The concept of the self of Descartes is a substence of the soul. It is a substence that have all characteristics of intellegence, feeling and will. But, in kantian view, the transcendental self is different from the all experience.(feeling, will) It is emptiness. It has no substence of experience. It has no phenomenon.
Second, in kantian view, the empirical self is the same thing that we call inner sense. It is the foundation that the self receive all sensible data through the from of time.
Third, the empirical self is change and change continuously, in kantion view. These kantian view is the same that Hume assert. All things is change and change in time. But kant assert that 〈I think〉 is accompany to all experience. 〈I think〉is a function of transcendental self. All sensible experience is change. But 〈I think〉is unchanged. Nevethless, all sensible experience is change,〈I think〉is constant. It is the basis that the self maintains identity.