David Hume s Bundle - 1041 Words

B. Introduction to David Hume’s ‘bundle’ (written as a reply to Descartes) The silhouette of a subject was drawn by a council of moments and David Hume named it an illusion, humanity named it the self. In the modern ages of philosophy while Rene Descartes’ affect still remains eminent, David Hume comes with an argument which kills the I Descartes created and lets it fly as a ghost in human perception. Not only in the case of the subject, the contrast between Hume’s and Descartes’ ideas can be seen in their search for a priori as well. i. David Hume’s empiricism and its contrast to Descartes’ ideas â€Å"All our simple ideas in their first appearance are deriv’d from simple impressions, which are correspondent to them, and which they exactly†¦show more content†¦This pre-reflective consciousness receives and reflects on the event when it occurs, though there is an awareness and recognition of the self beforehand. In contrast, David Hume embraces a post-reflective self-consciousness definition. According to Hume, the constituents of the mind which are the ideas are created by particular impressions and reflected upon them by the mind. (T 1.1.1.8) David Hume clarifies in A Treatise of Human Nature that each particular idea corresponds to an experience perceived before the idea is formed in the mind, and if the impression was lost, the corresponding idea would also be lost because of losing its source. In this case the prior mechanism is the experience, and the mind reflects the idea upon this perception. (T 1.1.1.9) The second important concept which they use dif ferent definitions is â€Å"ideas. While interpreting their definitions on the topic, both philosophers set off from the same basic point: principle of sufficient reason. Both Descartes and Hume try to find the cause of the ideas a mind forms and they arrive at two opposites of modern philosophy: rationalism and empiricism. While Descartes refuses the perceived senses as a valid source, he at the end announces the God’s will as the source of any involuntary perception.(Descartes, 38-40) David Hume on the other hand argues in