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Lesson 1: Philosophical Perspectives of the Self Flashcards

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1
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greek word “philein” and “sophia” literally means

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“love” and “wisdom”

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what is philosophy?

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“A WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD AND GIVING IT MEANING. IT CAN PROVIDE A HIGH QUALITY METHOD OF EXAMINING OUR BELIEFS.”

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what is socrates famous quote

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“Know Thy Self”

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He agreed that self-knowledge is a prerequisite to a happy and meaningful life.

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Socrates

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An unexamined life is not worth living”: meaning we should learn to “reflect“

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Socrates

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One thing only I know, and that is I know nothing.“: the more that we know, the more questions we ask.

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Socrates

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Age comes with more questions and answers. To answer unanswered questions, we continue to seek for answers.

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Socrates

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What is the socratic method

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How knowledge is brought (teaching by asking questions)

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What is socrates dualistic approach

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body and soul

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What does Socrates mean about body in his dualistic approach

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imperfect and impermanent

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What does Socrates mean about the soul in his dualistic approach

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perfect and permanent

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What are the dichotomous realms

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Physical realm and Ideal realm

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Physical realm

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changeable, transient and imperfect, the body belongs to this realm

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unchanging, eternal, and immortal; the soul belongs to this realm.

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Ideal realm

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What keep us from attaining wisdom?:

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focuses on material possession

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Student of Socrates”

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Plato

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Founded the Academy: considered as
prototype of today’s universities.

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Plato

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Believe in the existence of the SOUL.

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Plato

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According to Plato what is the most divine aspect of the self

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Soul

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According to Plato what does divine mean

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the soul is the most intellectual aspects of the person

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what are the 3 components of soul?

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  1. rational soul
  2. spirited soul
  3. appetitive soul
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reason, intellect, enables us to think deeply, make wise choices, thinking soul

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Rational soul

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emotion and passion (what soul is this)

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spirited soul

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what soul (basic needs)

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appetitive soul

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“Cogito ergo sum”

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I think, therefore I Am

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Who said this “Cogito ergo sum”

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Rene Descartes

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Father of modern philosophy.

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Rene Descartes

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what is the hyperbolican doubt

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doubting the existence of his own physical body

29
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The existence of the body is NOT the proof that you exist.

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Rene descartes

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How can Descartes prove that I exist?

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➢The mere fact that I can DOUBT is enough to prove that I can exist.
➢Your ability to question things is the proof that you can exist.

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“mind-body dualism”

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Rene Descartes

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what does descartes believed that a man consists

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Matter and mind

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The physical stuff that walks, talks,
and plays the accordion.

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Matter

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The nonphysical substance (sometimes equated with the soul) that thinks, doubts, and remembers

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Mind

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The mind is united with the body to form a human being.

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Rene Descartes

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Who is known for Tabula Rasa

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John Locke

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The person is born like a blank slate. Clueless about the world. With experience we write in our blank slate/mind, and it got encoded.

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John Locke

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MEMORY: Our identity is not locked in the mind, soul or body only. If we don’t have memory, we cannot have a CONTINOUS Identity.

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John Locke

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Identity is explained in terms of psychological connection between life stages due to memory (we remember our experiences or what happened in the past).

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John Locke

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We learn more because of experiences and our ability to remember these experiences allows us to remember who we are today.

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John Locke

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✓”All knowledge is derived from human senses. “

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David Hume

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Influenced by empiricism (they don’t believe on what can’t be
seen or observe. We make use of our senses.)

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David Hume

43
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collection of impressions. The person is a collection of impressions.

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Bundle Theory

44
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vivid, products of direct experiences (perceptions of reality

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impressions

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copies of impressions; imaginations

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ideas

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There is no Self

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Personal identity is just a result of imagination”. The mind is simply a container for fleeting sensations.

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There is SELF. We construct self.

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Immanuel Kant

48
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The self constructs its own reality, actively creating a world that is familiar, predictable, and most significantly, mine.

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Immanuel Kant

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The self is a product of reason. Through RATIONALITY, people can understand certain abstract ideas that have no corresponding physical object or sensory experience.

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Immanuel Kant

50
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Self is not just what gives one his personality but also the set of knowledge acquisition for all human persons.

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Immanuel Kant

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What is Philosophy of Self and why it is important?

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✓A philosophy is the pinnacle of one’s life: Without philosophy we are subject to aimless bouts where life seems sometimes void and meaningless.
✓Philosophy adds structure and balance, to implement goals and reach one’s dreams: It is the roadmap to our actions and thoughts, the processing tool of reason.
✓Improve critical thinking, argument skills, analysis skills, problem solving skills, and communications.
✓Allows you to: justify your opinions , spot a bad argument, explain to people and why they are wrong, and you are right, philosophy teaches us to think, and it Answers our WHY.

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