CHAPTER 1: The Philosophy of the Self Flashcards
Refers to the condition of identity that make the
individual distinctly different from other individuals.
Philosophy of the Self
One’s knowledge and intellectual ability in understanding one’s learning characters, motivations,
and capabilities.
Self- Knowledge
Defined as an independent and self-determined action.
Self-Activity
Maintaining a person as a separate or self contained individual.
Self-Independent of the Senses
Characteristics of one’s self that is the determiner of
difference among the others.
Self-Identity
Mental imagery of an individual and is quite resistant
to change regarding one’s abilities, personality, and
role.
Self-Image
major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and
varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual.
Hindu Philosophy
Hindu believe that the self is
made up of two aspects:
‘Atman’ and ‘Brahman’
is to comprehend the nature of self.
The idea of ‘individual self’ is an illusion.
Buddhism
is the physical, observable aspects of the world
around us.
Form
-is how you express emotional and physical and
senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling.
Sensation
simply means cognition, observation, sensitivity,
awareness etc.
Perception
Shedding and relieving the belief of Western
Philosophy and seeing the dilemma in a different
spectrum.
Confucian Philosophy
Defined as the “achieved state of moral excellence
rather than a given human condition.”
Confucian Philosophy
human heartedness; goodness;
benevolence, man-to-man-ness; heart of
Compassion.
Jen
- righteousness; the moral disposition to
do good, heart of Righteousness
Yi
principle of gain, benefit, order,
propriety; concrete guide to human action. Having
a second sense of principle of social order; ritual;
ordering of life, heart of Propriety
Li
moral wisdom; the source of this
virtue is knowledge of right and wrong, heart of
Wisdom
Chih
‘Know Thyself’, a belief of the ancient Greek
philosophers of.
Greek Philosophy
He said that the true self of human beings is the reason or the
intellect that constitutes their soul and that is
separable from their body.
PLATO
True knowledge which includes the application of the
knowledge through meaningful experiences within one’s
environment.
SOCRATES
argues that the problem of ‘evil’ is the result
of ignorance because a man does not know any
better or that his intellectual knowledge is insufficient
and inadequate to act on a given dilemma or situation.
SOCRATES
“Knowledge is a virtue,
ignorance is a vice.”
SOCRATES
Purely spiritual, free from sensual
desire, particularly between man and woman
characterized by abstinence of sexual involvement.
Platonic Doctrine
The art and method of correct thinking. The
method of every science, discipline, and of the arts.
LOGIC - ARISTOTLE
he saw the “self” as a thinking person. He
emphasized the mind as a thinking substance in the
brain.
Rene Descartes
“Cogito ergo sum” means “I
think therefore; I am.”
Rene Descartes
are the
original form of all the ideas.
Impressions
“The self can be understood by examining one’s mind,
what constitute the mind.”
John Locke
English Empirical Philosopher (1632-1704)
John Locke:
believes that the self
has three layers: The Id, Ego, and Superego.
The Id, which works on the pleasure principle, is the
seat of our passion, desires and other instinctual
drives.
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist
Sigmund Freud
the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.
EGO
the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.
SUPEREGO
the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.
ID
the “Father of Sikholohiyang Pilipino.”
Virgilio Enriquez
He proposed the idea that concept of “self” or (personhood) can be centered on the core values expressed in
the word ‘Kapwa.’
Virgilio Enriquez
