- Exploring David Hume's revolutionary ideas in A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Hume's challenge to the traditional concept of a fixed 'self'.
- The philosophical shift towards viewing minds and objects as fluid.
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TranscriptIn the groundbreaking work, A Treatise of Human Nature, written during the years seventeen thirty-nine to forty, David Hume presented a radical argument that shifted the philosophical landscape of the time. Hume posited that upon introspection, he could not discern any tangible impression of what is commonly referred to as the "self" or "mind", a receptacle for ideas. This conclusion led him to propose that both objects in the external world and minds themselves should not be considered as fixed, tangible entities.
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