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    Analysing the self requires examining the parts that cons... — Carmelics
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    Analysing the self requires examining the parts that constitute a person

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    • 1.The conception of self is embedded in personhood
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    • 2.Personhood is constituted by the five aggregates
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    • 3.The assumption of self arises in relation to personhood
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    • 1.Descartes' cogito establishes that the self is known immediately through thinking, prior to any analysis of bodily or mental parts.
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    • 2.If self-knowledge is foundationally pre-analytical, then part-analysis cannot be constitutive of, but only derivative from, the self.
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    • 1.Kant argues the transcendental unity of apperception ('I think') is a formal condition that unifies representations, not itself a composite of parts.
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    • 2.A unifying condition cannot be explained by what it is the condition of, making aggregate-analysis of the self categorically circular.
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    In order to appreciate Candrakīrti’s not-self argument, or the argument that shows unreality of conventionally real person, we need to understand Candrakīrti’s purpose of refuting personal self. According to Candrakīrti it is important that we look into the question: from where does the assumption of self arise before we go any further. He argues, like all the Buddhist philosophers do, the notion of self or the assumption of self arises in relation to personhood. After all it is a personal ident
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