PROBLEM OF PERSONALITY
Sir, — I am indebted to “A.E.C.” for attended extract from the English PhJ_ sopher, Hume. I re-quote and that as “pain and pleasure, P\ sion and sensations succeed . e H|v other and never continue invaria the same, it cannot therefore be f r 3 any order of these impression that idea of self is derived.” Whence, tn is this sense of self derived? I contend that it is inherent, manifest from infancy till death possibly after. Personality, I thin*, the result of choice by the ego aC - upon the factors of heredity and onment. As this “self” is ’ it is evidently divisable and we a no evidence that it is as Hume annihilated, when the “contact « enjthat is. -with the death of the be> • “A.E.C.” has apparently reached vana, but I am still. _ AN ARMCHAIR DABBLE*-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 8
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