David Hume 3 minute philosophy vid....

**SageTree** · 09-25-2010, 12:14 PM

Came upon this and thought it'd be interesting to share.

YouTube - Three Minute Philosophy - David Hume

To me this sounds like something familiar, like the understanding of Self/Non-Self in Buddhism, but to be more open and honest about the real feeling I have here which is that, I enjoy hearing over lapping of ideas from different 'parts' of the world.

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The self

According to the standard interpretation of Hume on personal identity, he was a Bundle Theorist, who held that the self is nothing but a bundle of interconnected perceptions linked by relations of similarity and causality; or, more accurately, that our idea of the self is just the idea of such a bundle. This view is forwarded by, for example, positivist interpreters, who saw Hume as suggesting that terms such as "self", "person", or "mind" referred to collections of "sense-contents"

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The understanding of Atman (Self) in Buddhism

In the Abhidharmapiṭaka, a treatise on metaphysics, the doctrine which allows Buddhist philosophy to explain all phenomena is that all things happen with cause. Ātman (Self) is a conceptual attachment to oneself that promotes a false belief that one is intrinsic and without incident.

Or without interconnected evens, in other words.

Hume, once analyzing the Self and it's nature, seeing it's impermanence, or as the video said, by means of seeing that truth in other things first, he then set out searching with this basic principle in mind, which basically is what Buddhism teaches through Sunyata.

I'm not expert on Hume, but the familiarity that the short video struck in me, where chords that I've heard played on my heart strings. So I just wanted to mention that I think it's cool that the basic groundwork for the two topics comes down to a similar if not the same understanding of the Impermanent Nature of Self and thus All things.

I'd enjoy any comments thoughts reflects or refutations.

Thanks for reading and allowing me to share.

SageTree

farmergiles · 09-25-2010, 01:02 PM

excellent.

Karl Popper answered a lot of the questions Hume asked- notably about induction.

**SageTree** · 09-25-2010, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by farmergiles

excellent.

Karl Popper answered a lot of the questions Hume asked- notably about induction.

A true blue excellent?

I'll and see if I can find any cartoon vids about him now after I review the questions

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