Lesson 1 Flashcards
Know Yourself
Socrates
first philosopher who engages in systematic questioning about the self.
Socrates
Man is composed of two important aspects of his personhood
dualism Socrates
Since _____ is innate in the _____ and _____ is the source of all ______, an individual may gain possession of oneself and be one’s own master through knowledge.
virtue, mind, knowledge, wisdom
Socrates
The Ideal Self, perfect self
Plato
Socrates affirmed that the unexamined life is not worth living. With this, he basically took off from his master and supported the idea that man is dual in nature.
Plato
copied by reason intellect
rational soul
in charge of emotions
spiritual soul
He conceived of the human person as having a body and a mind. He claims that there is so much that we should doubt since much of what we think and believe is not infallible, they may turn out to be false.
Rene Descartes
base desires
appetitive soul
Cogito, ergo sum / I think, therefore I am
Rene Descartes
thought that the only thing that one cannot doubt is the existence of the self, for even if one doubts oneself, that only proves that there is a doubting self, a thing that thinks and therefore, that cannot be doubted.
Rene Descartes
the self is the bundle theory of mind
David Hume
He is an empiricist who believes that one can know only through the senses and experiences.
David Hume
posits that self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions.
David Hume