Explain the role that the idea of an enduring self plays in legal, moral, and religious contexts. Descartes view held that the soul is an identity that remains constant, a continuity of thought, the thinking mind representing self. Locke believed that we had identity based on memories. The no-self view is shared by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, and Budhism, who believe that we have no fixed nature, and because everything’s in flux, there …showed first 75 words of 360 total…

…showed last 75 words of 360 total…for some eternal self? It is plain to see that each of the above examples of belief systems tend to support the view of an enduring self. Philosophers call it “the problem of personal identity.” The question is, what makes a person the same person from one moment to the next, and if we are not the same person from one moment to the next, then how can we be held accountable for our deeds?