Podcast
Can we truly know ourselves?
I think, therefore I am. This statement, by the French philosopher René Descartes, is one of the most famous in western philosophy. You can question everything—except your own existence. Case closed, right? Not according to early Buddhists, who believed in the idea of no-self. Philosopher Colin Caret explains what it means to have no self and what lessons we can learn from the Buddhist way of thinking.