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The self keeps on changing, like how one looks, one feels, one thinks-
they constantly change.
An “enduring self” is just a fiction produced by our imagination.
There is no permanent and unchanging self. A person is a bundle of
perception.
The “I” will be constantly changing because the different experiences
one has for every constant change will affect and reshape that person.
In conclusion, there is no self.
IMMANUEL KANT
Kant believes that man is a free agent, capable of making
decisions for himself. As a free agent, man is gifted with
reason and free will.
A moral person is one who is driven by duty and acts
towards the fulfillment of that duty.
For us to know what is our duty, we have to rationally
deliberate on it and not expect that a higher authority will
hand it automatically to us, and certainly we cannot let
the arbitrariness of emotion guide us.
The self is a unifying In refuting Hume’s idea that there is no self, he (1781)
subject, an arguing
consciousness that makes
said that since man is gifted with reason and free will,
intelligible experience man can organize the data gathered by the senses.
possible. From these data, and the way we organize the data, we
can now have a good idea of a man.
SIGMUND FREUD