The Illusion of Self Hume & Buddhism

  • 7 years ago
Descartes famously claimed that the one thing which is absolutely certain and cannot be doubted is the existence of himself as a conscious thinking subject.
— This is a video essay looking how philosopher David Hume questions the existence of the self, and attempts to define what it .
Watch the entire conversation on MeaningofLife.tv Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and .
Presented on June 29, 2017 The most distinctive and iconic teaching of the Buddha is that of non-self – that there is no true self or soul behind the flow of actions .