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What, if anything, can you boil one's self down to, outside any notion of soul or essence?
October 6, 2005
| Response from Jay L. Garfield on October 7, 2005 |
Many philosophers, especially those in the Buddhist tradition (Nagasena, Candrakirti, Santideva,or see Hume for a Western sympathiser), have argued that there is nothing that one can "boil oneself down to," that is, that the self has no existence independent of convention. Others have argued that there is some basic subjective entity, either substantial (Descartes) or transcendental (Kant, Schopenhauer) that undergirds our identity.
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