Lesson 1 (part 3) Flashcards
“The good man though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
St. Augustine.
considered as one of the most
significant Christian thinkers, esp. in the
development of the Latin Christian theology.
St. Augustine
French mathematician, scientist,
and philosopher.
He argues that a person should only believe the things
that can pass the test of doubt.
René Descartes
the things that think (mind) which is the proof of
human existence.
Cogito ergo sum
extension of the mind (body)
Extenza
“The only fence againts the world is a thorough knowledge of it”
John Locke
English philosopher
His works as a physician provided him with an idea that
deviated from the duality of the body or soul
John Locke
A person’s mind is___________
a blank state (tabula rasa)
“Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
David Hume
Scottish philosopher and an
empiricist who believed that all concepts and
knowledge come from the senses and experiences.
He argued that there is no self beyond what can be
experienced
David Hume
We do not know others because we have
seen/touched their souls; we know them because of
what we can actually __________
Observe
bundle or
collection of different perceptions
self according to david hume
The self is a combination of experiences of a person. Experiences can be categorized into:
impressions
ideas
real/actual experiences or sensations like feeling the
rough edges of a stone or tasting a sweet ice cream
impressions
copies of impressions/representations of the world and
sensations, like love, faith, or even an association with this certain event is caused by something in the past could possibly create another reaction in the future.
ideas
“All our knowledge begins with senses, turns into understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason”
Immanuel Kant
One of the most influential philosophers in Modern
Western philosophy
Immanuel Kant
the foundation of knowledge. It is like seeing a visual
effect in television, your experience says it is there,
but the reason says it is only a computer-
generated image
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reason
organizes our experience into something meaningful. It can do such a thing because it is independent from sensory experiences; something
that transcends or is above our consciousness
kant
Self
“In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneosly be the hunter and the hunted”
Gilbert Ryle
focused on observable behavior in defining the
self. He stated that every human being has both a
physical body and a non-physical mind which are
ordinarily “harnessed together” while we are alive
Gilbert Ryle
“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
MAURICE MERLEAU
PONTY
French existentialist and phenomenologist,
also contributes to the idea by stating that mind and
body are interconnected with each other and
therefore, cannot be separated.
MAURICE MERLEAU
PONTY
our connection to the external world,
including other people, thus all experiences are
embodied. This also includes the thoughts and
emotions of a person.
ponty
Body
