SECTION II: What is the Self?

This section comprises readings from great philosophers along with my commentary on those readings. Please plan to bring to class each of the readings in this sections.

Readings:

• II.1 Plato: from the Phaedo
• II.2 Plato: from the Symposium
• II.3 Descartes: from Meditations on First Philosophy
• II.4 Locke: from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• II.5 Hume: from A Treatise of Human Nature
• II.6 Kant: from Critique of Pure Reason and Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Lessons:

• II.1 on Arguments

 

Plato (click for larger image)

Socrates (click for larger image)

 

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