Blogs by David Arthur Walters
Self-Certainty and Self-Doubt
4/13/2007 5:50:44 AM
Most of us are sure of our existence.
The self-conscious subject who feels his own body in distinction of other bodies and develops a self-concept believes he is most familiar with his self and is therefore more certain of the existence of his self than the objective world, which might after all be an illusion or hallucination; therefore he presumes he somehow objetively exists as a feeling-judging (perceiving) subject, and he conceives of his “I” or unity of apperception as a deliberately thinking entity. On the other hand, there are atheistic grounds to believe that the self does not exist as an objective entity at all; that it is a flimsy metaphysical fiction or abstract being, and that only the objective world exists, a reality severely truncated and distorted by the limited consciousness of the physical and mental plant called the human being. Either prejudice is arguable, but neither can stand alone without resort to absurdities and torturous theodicy to explain them away - dualism is by far the most convenient premise, although it might not be true to the Thingie.
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