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Concept and Nature of Self Flashcards

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  • A product of natural processes which we are inherently predisposed.
  • Largely influenced and principally constructed by one’s social environment.
  • Both a product of nature and nurture
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Self

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  • anchored on the lens of biological sciences
  • traits are passed on by one generation to another
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Nature

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self should be viewed as an outcome of various nurturing factors in the context of one’s social life.

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Nurture

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Defined as the qualities, beliefs, etc. that make a particular person or group different from others.
- Known to self
- Known to others

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Identity

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Is the person that someone normally or truly is or the entire person of an individual
- Known to self
- Unknown to others

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Self

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a dimension of the self that refers to the groups in which individuals can directly identify him/ herself (family, peer, organization, etc.)

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Social Factors

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a dimension of the self that broadly includes the physical and communal elements present in our everyday surroundings.
(climate, temperature, larger community)

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Environmental Factors

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a dimension of the self that is a biological process by which certain traits and characteristics are passed on from one generation to another.

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Hereditary Factors

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A dimension of the self that refers to the inclination of a person to form and construct a specific identity which will set him apart or unique compared with others.

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Person-Volition Factors

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Whose Philosophy?

  • Principally concerned with man
  • Considers man from the point of view of his inner life
  • Tells each man to bring his inner self to light
  • Emphasizes the concept of virtue and knowledge
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Socrates

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  • Behavior showing high moral standards
  • The deepest and most basic propensity of man
  • Innate in the mind
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Virtue

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Two distinct philosophical lens that define the Philosophies of the Self

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  1. Empiricism
  2. Rationalism
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  • Derives explanatins of the self from sensory and bodily responses
  • We know things because we experience it through bodily senses
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Empiricism

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  • There is an innate knowledge
  • They differ in that they choose different objects of innate knowledge.
  • Explains self in the standpoint of what is “ideal” and the “truth”, not rooted in what us felt by the senses or body.
  • Using logic and reasoning
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Rationalism

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  • The unexamined life is not worth living
  • Living a virtuous life requires self-examination and a commitment to moral principles
  • Knowledge is the ultimate virtue
  • Should live a life of virtue
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Socrates

Socratic Philosophy (Idealism)

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Formula for Happiness
according to Socrates

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Knowledge = Virtue = Happiness

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  • The ideal society would be one in which each person performed a role that was best suited to their abilities
  • Diversity is not tolerated in this state.
  • Preaches The Ideal Self, The Perfect Self
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Plato

Dualism and Idealism (Idealism)

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  • Emphasizes importance on individual autonomy
  • Individuals should adhere to the moral law
  • Reason is the final authority of morality
  • There is the inner self and outer self
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Kant

Metaphysics of the Self (Rationalist/Empiricist)

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  • Emphasized the importance of the individual mind and the power of reason.
  • The mind and the body are independent from each other and serve their own function.
  • Self is a thinking entity distinct from the body
  • “Cogito, ergo sum”
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René Descartes

Mind-Body Dualism (Rationalist)

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  • Personal Identity (the self) is a matter of psychological continuity.
  • Is founded on consciousness (memory), and not on the substance of either soul or body
  • The concept about oneself that evolves over the course of an individual’s life.
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John Locke

Theory of Personal Identity (Empiricist)

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  • skeptical about the existence of the self
  • Man has no “clear and intelligible” idea of the self.
  • No single impression of the self exists;
  • The self is just the thing to which all perceptions of a man is ascribed.
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David Hume

Skeptical Philosophy (Empiricist)

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  • believes that a virtuous life is a dynamism of love.
  • It is a constant of and turning towards love.
  • A wicked life is a constant turning away from love.
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St. Augustine

Neo-Platonism (Platonism)

23
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Golden Principle

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Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

24
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The “Self” is just a collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity

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David Hume’s Skeptical Philosophy

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concerned with the impression made on the intellect.

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Rationalism

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