INTRODUCTION OF THE UNDERSTANDING THE SELF Flashcards
LESSON 1
Questioning yourself various questions to achieve self-awareness
(Ex ques. How well do you know about yourself? What are your values?)
SELF-REFLECTION
Refers to how you see yourself at this moment in time Like physical characteristics, traits, and social roles
SELF IMAGE
An ideal person you want to be. Attributes or qualities you are either working toward or want to possess. You envision yourself to be if you were exactly as you
wanted.
IDEAL SELF
How much you like, accept, and value yourself all contribute to your self-concept. (can be affected by the various factors—how others see you, how you think you compare to others, social roles)
SELF-ESTEEM
*The self image is diff. from ideal self
*Only a little overlap
* Self actualization can be difficult
INCONGRUENT
- Self image is same with ideal self
- More overlap
- A person can self actualize
CONGRUENT
To achieve self-actualization
IN THE STATE OF CONGRUENCE
The study of finding the truth involves in answering questions regarding the nature and existence of man and the world we live in.
PHILOSOPHY
Is defined as a “unified being, essentially connected to consciousness, awareness and agency (or, at least, with the faculty of rational choice).
SELF
according to him “Know thyself; unexamined LIFE is not Worth Living”
BODIES = PHYSICAL REALM; changeable, imperfect, die
SOUL = IDEAL REALM; unchanging, immortal, surviving the death of the body
MEANING - Our self look for our own purpose and meaning of existence.
SOCRATES
according to him “The Soul is Immortal”
Truth and wisdom will not be tempted by vices and will always be correct/mora/ethical.
Our soul are divided into 3 parts:
Appetitive soul - Driven by desire and need to satisfy oneself
Spirited soul-couragous part of a person - Wants to do something/ right the wrongs they observe. This is where competitiveness navigates one to expect positive results and win.
Rational soul - Thinks and plan for our future (Conscious mind)
REASON: Search for the truth
DESIRE: seeks for pleasure
SPIRIT: Aspects that can be trained such as aggressiveness
PLATO
according to him “ The Soul is the Essence of the Self”
- The self’s main goal is to have a good, flourishing, and fulfilling life. He believes that the central purpose of human life and the goal in itself (happiness depends on ourselves)
- He believes that our body and soul are not two separate elements, but is one thing. The soul is the essence of ourselves, but it can’t exist without the body
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
ARISTOTLE
according to him “I am doubting therefore I am”.
-God-centered theory of self
- Sense of self is our relation to God’s love and our response to it.
- Believes that one could not achieve inner peace without finding God’s love
ST. AUGUSTINE
according to him “cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am)
- The act of being self-conscious- is in
itself proof that there is self. - There is a soul and a body which are not
independent of one another and each can exist and function without the other. - A person compromised of mind (that thinks and questions what the body experienced), and body (perceives from the different senses)
DESCARTES
according to him “The self is consciousness”.
- At birth of our minds is at blank state (Tabula rasa)
and self-identity is being developed primary from sense of experience
JOHN LOCKE
