What is personal identity? Sure most people have a vague idea of ​​what it is, but there's more behind what people think. So often people in life take things for granted, unaware of how little they actually know. On the topic of personal identity there were two great philosophers, David Hume and John Locke, who both had very different views on the topic, but both show how profound this topic can be. Hume's "On Personal Identity" and Locke's "On Identity and Otherness" are two powerful and well-written essays ripe for criticism. The goal is to find commonality between the ideas, analyze them separately, and explain why both were wrong. David Hume and John Locke both appealed to the senses in one way or another to explain personal identity or “the self.” They believed that the self cannot exist outside of the senses because all knowledge in the world comes from the senses, in their view the self is no different. They both talked about how diversity (the sequence of senses/impressions) plays a huge role in the creation of the self. Although both Hume and Locke agreed...