@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007393,
 author = {田村, 均 and TAMURA, Hitoshi},
 journal = {Journal of the School of Letters},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The purpose of this paper is to make clear what is Hume’s true contribution to our understanding of the problem of personal identity. I introduce two anthropological theories about the history of the concept of a person in the western civilization, one of which is presented by Marcel Mauss and the other by Louis Dumont. Both give us essentially the same picture. In the western history, detachment from (in Mauss), or renouncement of (in Dumont), society has given a human being the inner sense of self as distinguished from social status. In the Book One of Treatise, Hume tries to explain the mental process of making up the identity of a person by means of perceptions and the principles of their relation. He, however, ends up with getting into a labyrinth and cannot find his way out of it. In the Book Two of Treatise, He tries to describe the emergence of self in terms of social relationship. He does not see it as necessary to renounce society. But we can make a plausible description of the emergence of a person with the inner sense of self in a natural extension of the Humean explanation. Hume has come near to the correct understanding of the sociological mechanism of the emergence of the modern individual. He tells us, though implicitly, that we can have self as something concrete only when we live in the social relationships with others that could mean the Maussean detachment or the Dumontian renouncement.},
 pages = {19--29},
 title = {The Modern Concept of Man and Hume on Personal Identity},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2005}
}