LESSON 1: PHILOSOPHICAL SELF Flashcards

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Is the union of; Body, Thoughts, Feelings/Emotions, and Sensations that constitute the Individuality and Identity of a person

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Self in Philosophy

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Also defined as a “unified being, essentially connected to consciousness, awareness, and agency.”

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Self in Philosophy

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  • Often called as the mother of all disciplines
  • Study of acquiring knowledge through rational thinking and inquiries that involve questions regarding the nature and existence of man and the world.
  • Help us devote the understanding and insight you need to make intelligent choices and fulfill your potential
  • Provide the conceptual tools required to craft a life inspiring in its challenges and rich in its fulfillment.
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Philosophy

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Often called as the mother of all disciplines

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Philosophy

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Study of acquiring knowledge through rational thinking and inquiries that involve questions regarding the nature and existence of man and the world.

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Philosophy

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Help us devote the understanding and insight you need to make intelligent choices and fulfill your potential

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Philosophy

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Provide the conceptual tools required to craft a life inspiring in its challenges and rich in its fulfillment.

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Philosophy

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • 1st Philosopher (Greek Philosopher)
  • “Every human person is Dualistic”
    Body - All individual have an Imperfect, Impermanent
    Soul - Perfect and Permanent
  • “Know Thyself” - True task of a philosopher is to “Know Oneself”
  • “An Unexamined Life is not Worth Living”
  • To be fully aware of who the Self is, and the VIRUTES that one supposed to attain in order to preserve the soul for Afterlife
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Socrates

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PHILOSOPHERS

1st Philosopher (Greek Philosopher)

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Socrates

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Every human person is Dualistic”
Body - All individual have an Imperfect, Impermanent
Soul - Perfect and Permanent

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Socrates

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Know Thyself” - True task of a philosopher is to “Know Oneself”

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Socrates

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PHILOSOPHERS

“An Unexamined Life is not Worth Living” - To be fully aware of who the Self is, and the VIRUTES that one supposed to attain in order to preserve the soul for Afterlife

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Socrates

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “Knowledge is a higher form of awareness”
  • “The Soul is in the human body and it has three components”:
    Rational Soul (Reason and Intellect) - Govern the affairs of the human person
    Spirited Soul (Will) - In charge of emotions
    * Appetitive Soul - Human needs and desires e.g. eating, sleeping, drinking and sexual desires
  • The Spirited soul supports the Rational Soul, which in turn controls the Appetitive soul.
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Plato

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “Knowledge is a higher form of awareness”
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Plato

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PHILOSOPHERS

“The Soul is in the human body and it has three components”:
Rational Soul (Reason and Intellect) - Govern the affairs of the human person
Spirited Soul (Will) - In charge of emotions
* Appetitive Soul - Human needs and desires e.g. eating, sleeping, drinking and sexual desires
* The Spirited soul supports the Rational Soul, which in turn controls the Appetitive soul.

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Plato

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “Knowledge is acquired on account of divine illumination
  • “The goal of every human person is to attain the communion and the bliss with the Divine by living his life on earth in virtue.”
  • “Admission of wrongdoing is the first step to a good cause.”
  • “Man is bifurcated in nature. The body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God”
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St. Augustine

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Knowledge is acquired on account of divine illumination

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St. Augustine

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PHILOSOPHERS

“The goal of every human person is to attain the communion and the bliss with the Divine by living his life on earth in virtue.”

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St. Augustine

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Admission of wrongdoing is the first step to a good cause.”

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St. Augustine

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Man is bifurcated in nature. The body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God”

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St. Augustine

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “God created human beings so that God had someone who loved him/her.” - In return, man should live to enjoy their existence in God.
  • Human person is a soul-body unity:
    Matter (hyle in Greek) - Refers to the common stuff that makes up everything in the universe including man’s body’s
    Form (mothpe in Greek) - Refers to the essence of a substance or thing.
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St. Thomas Aquinas

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PHILOSOPHERS

“God created human beings so that God had someone who loved him/her.” - In return, man should live to enjoy their existence in God.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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PHILOSOPHERS

Human person is a soul-body unity:
Matter (hyle in Greek) - Refers to the common stuff that makes up everything in the universe including man’s body’s
Form (mothpe in Greek) - Refers to the essence of a substance or thing.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “Cogito ergo Sum” (I think therefore I am)
  • Self has a combination of 2 distinct entities:
    Cogito - The thing that thinks (mind)
    Extenza - The extension of the mind (body)
  • The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to mind. But it is not what makes a man, MAN - It is his Mind
  • Reflex Theory - Mechanism for automatic reaction in response to external events; States that mind, like machine can be studied.
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Rene Descartes

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “Cogito ergo Sum” (I think therefore I am)
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Rene Descartes

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PHILOSOPHERS

Self has a combination of 2 distinct entities:
Cogito - The thing that thinks (mind)
Extenza - The extension of the mind (body)

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Rene Descartes

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PHILOSOPHERS

The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to mind. But it is not what makes a man, MAN - It is his Mind

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Rene Descartes

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PHILOSOPHERS

Reflex Theory - Mechanism for automatic reaction in response to external events; States that mind, like machine can be studied.

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Rene Descartes

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
  • “Self is a bundle of impressions or a collection of different perceptions. If one tries to examine experiences, it should be analyzed through 2 categories:
    Impression - Are the basic objects of our experience or sensation
    Idea - Are copies of impressions.
  • The man is a collection of different successive perception which is always changing and moving
  • Self is simply a combination of ALL experiences with a particular person
  • “Knowledge can only be possible if it sensed and experienced”
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David Hume

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PHILOSOPHERS

“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”

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David Hume

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“Self is a bundle of impressions or a collection of different perceptions. If one tries to examine experiences, it should be analyzed through 2 categories:
Impression - Are the basic objects of our experience or sensation
Idea - Are copies of impressions.

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David Hume

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PHILOSOPHERS

The man is a collection of different successive perception which is always changing and moving

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David Hume

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PHILOSOPHERS

Self is simply a combination of ALL experiences with a particular person

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David Hume

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PHILOSOPHERS

“Knowledge can only be possible if it sensed and experienced”

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David Hume

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “The path to true knowledge is thru:
    Rationalism (reason)
    Empiricism (by the senses)
  • Self is the SEAT of knowledge acquisition for all human persons
  • There is a MIND or SELF that organizes the impressions that men get from the external world.
  • Kant views the world as having two aspects:
    Internal Self (noumena) - Composed of psychological states and informed decisions; remembering our own state, how can we combine the new and old ideas with our mind
    External Self (Phenomena) - Made up of ourselves and the physical world where the representation of objects
  • TIME and SPACE - These are ideas that one cannot find in the world but is built in our minds
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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “The path to true knowledge is thru:
    Rationalism (reason)
    Empiricism (by the senses)
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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

Self is the SEAT of knowledge acquisition for all human persons

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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

There is a MIND or SELF that organizes the impressions that men get from the external world.

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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

Kant views the world as having two aspects:
Internal Self (noumena) - Composed of psychological states and informed decisions; remembering our own state, how can we combine the new and old ideas with our mind
External Self (Phenomena) - Made up of ourselves and the physical world where the representation of objects

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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

TIME and SPACE - These are ideas that one cannot find in the world but is built in our minds

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Immanuel Kant

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • “In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.”
  • He deny the concepts of an internal, non-physical self.
  • He suggests that the self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that people use to refer to ALL the behaviors that people make.
  • “I made it, and so I am”/ “I act therefore I am”
  • SELF and BEHAVIOR - Wrong bases and the problems arise on how we give meaning and how we deliver or how we paraphrase the words
  • Ghost in the Machine - The mysterious component called mind, controls the mechanistic body.
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Gilbert Ryle

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PHILOSOPHERS

“In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.”

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Gilbert Ryle

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • He deny the concepts of an internal, non-physical self.
  • He suggests that the self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that people use to refer to ALL the behaviors that people make.
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Gilbert Ryle

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PHILOSOPHERS

“I made it, and so I am”/ “I act therefore I am”

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Gilbert Ryle

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PHILOSOPHERS

  • SELF and BEHAVIOR - Wrong bases and the problems arise on how we give meaning and how we deliver or how we paraphrase the words
  • Ghost in the Machine - The mysterious component called mind, controls the mechanistic body.
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Gilber Ryle

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