“The problem of the soul’s immortality has ever arrested the attention of serious thinkers.” (Augustine, Reprint 2010) Many Philosophers, from Socrates to Descartes, have taken it upon themselves to answer one of life’s biggest unanswerable questions, “Who I am?” Well, who exactly am I? According to Hume’s view, there is no “self” and we are just products of our memories of experiences. Do I believe this to be true? No, I don’t. Yes, memories shape us, but they do not define who we are as a person or whether or not our soul lives on after our physical bodies die. I believe that we are so much more than just memories and that we do possess an immortal soul. There is so much behind the question, “Who am I?” that I have researched, questioned, …show more content…
One of these philosopher’s is Saint Augustine. Many of Augustine’s ideas of the self and the soul closely mirrors that of the philosopher Plato. However, Augustine also added his own ideas based on his Christian beliefs. The belief of Saint Augustine’s that I agree with the most is the fact that the main focus of the soul, through faith and reason, is to become one with God. Praying, being honest, doing good deeds, and reading and following the verses in the Bible are ways that I believe people can have their souls closer to …show more content…
And even, David Hume, himself questions the existence of the soul in an essay and writes, “The soul therefore if immortal, existed before our birth; and if the former existence no ways concerned us, neither will the latter” (Hume, 1799). In this thought, he states that if there is a soul, it really doesn’t concern our present selves, because we wouldn’t remember its past being or know what the future self