ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on personality and individuality. To assert identity and to deny difference, in the case of the Divine personality and the human, is simply to destroy religion. As Professor Pringle Pattison says, religion is the self-surrender of the human will to the divine. Professor Pringle Pattison speaks, the impermeability, which is implied by the term individuality, and which must lead those who postulate it either to solipsism. Solipsism is the theory that alone exist. Egotism is that theory put into practice. Egotism can indeed be practised without any formal or conscious acknowledgment of the metaphysical theory of Solipsism. M. Bergson asserts that there is movement but that there is nothing which moves, he is making an unmeaning and impossible assertion, which may lead to the denial of the existence of personal identity.