Could you explain the traditional Western view of the enduring self and one challenge to this view presented by philosophers like Plato, Descartes, or Locke?
Could you explain the traditional Western view of the enduring self and one challenge to this view presented by philosophers like Plato, Descartes, or Locke?
‘Self’ is defined as an individual human being that encompasses the body, mind and soul. Precisely ‘self’ is the umbrella term that consists of all characteristic attributes, conscious, unconscious, mental, physical state of an individual. It is the knowledge of oneself. ‘Enduring self’ is stated as the belief that ‘people never change’ and they remain to be the same person over the years of their life.
According to the western concept of ‘enduring self’ it suggests that a person is the same as he/she was earlier and has endured through time despite of the mental and physical change that a person has gone through during his/her life. People have essentially the same ‘self’ throughout the different developments they go through.
The eastern philosophy rejects the notion of ‘enduring self.’ It believes that nothing in life lasts forever and is ephemeral. Everything undergoes change with time and so do ‘self.’ According to the Buddhist ideals ‘self’ is an illusion’, which leads to pain and suffering .
Similarly, David Hume had a similar idea to that of Buddhist ideas of ‘self.’ According to Hume also ‘self’ is an illusion and further argue that real knowledge is what we consider through our senses, and self is something we cannot perceive thus it has no existence rather,Instead, according to Hume's philosophical thought, it is fictional.
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