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was the first philosopher to engage in a systematic questioning about the self and took it upon to himself to serve as a “gadfly” who disturbed Athenian men from their slumber and shook them off in order to reach the truth and wisdom.

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Socrates

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he said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.”

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Socrates

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According to him, Through introspection, a person becomes virtuous or come to know his values.

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Socrates

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was the first one to focus on the self, who we are, who we should be and who we will become in which he believes that every human has an immortal soul aside from the physical body.

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Socrates

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He believes that an individual’s reality is divided by two parts. The physical realm and the ideal realm.

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Socrates

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For him, every man is composed of body and soul. This means that every human person is dualistic, that is, he is composed of two important aspects of his personhood.

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Socrates

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an imperfect, impermanent aspect

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body

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perfect and permanent

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soul

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he said “The soul is synonymous with the self.”

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Plato

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According to him, the self is in the physical form and the soul is in the ideal form.

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Plato

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something temporary

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self

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eternal

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soul

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He emphasizes that justice in the human person can only be attained if the three parts of the soul are working harmoniously with one another.

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Plato

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the three kinds of souls according to Plato

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Rational Soul, Spirited Soul and Appetitive Soul

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is forged by reason and intellect.

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Rational Soul

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is in charge of emotions.

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Spirited Soul

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consists of our desire that we need to enable us to live.

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Appetitive Soul

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He stated, “Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

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St. Augustine

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believes that there is an aspect of man, which dwells in the worlds, that is imperfect and continuously years to be with the divine while the other is capable of reaching immortality.

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St. Augustine

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According to St. Augustine, the ________ is bound to die on earth

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body

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According to St. Augustine, ______ is anticipated to live eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God.

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soul

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According to St. Augustine, _______ can only thrive in the imperfect, physical reality, which is the world

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body

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According to St. Augustine, ______________ can also stay after death in an eternal realm with the transcendent God.

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“I think, therefore, I am”

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Rene Descartes

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“Father of Modern Philosophy.”
Rene Descartes
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He claims that there is so much that we should doubt.
Rene Descartes
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he say that much of what we think and believe, because they are not infallible, may turn out to be false. One should only believe that which can pass the test of doubt.
Rene Descartes
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he thought that the only thing that one cannot doubt is the existence of the self.
Rene Descartes
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According to Rene Descartes, there is a ___________ a thing that thinks and therefore, that cannot be doubted.
doubting self
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The self is then for Descartes is also a combination of two distinct entities, the ___________ and ______________
cogito and extenza
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he believed that the self is a combination of two distinct identities, the cogito and extenza
Rene Descartes
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According to Rene Descartes, it is the thing that thinks
cogito
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According to Rene Descartes, it is the the extension of the mind (the body).
extenza
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According to him, "There is no self."
David Hume
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According to him, The self is just a collection or combination of all the perceptions of a particular person. He finds that they can all be categorized into two: impressions and ideas.
David Hume
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According to David Hume, it is a collection or combination of all the perceptions of a particular person.
self
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According to David Hume, the self can be categorized into two: __________ and ____________
impressions and ideas
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are the basic object of our experience or sensation. They form the core of our thoughts.
impressions
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are vivid because they are the product of our direct experience with the world.
impressions
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are copies of impressions. They are not as lively and vivid as our impression because we do not experienced it yet in the real world.
ideas
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According to him, "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
Immanuel Kant
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He thinks that there is an organizing principle that regulates the relationships of all the perceptions and sensation of impressions.
Immanuel Kant
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He said that the mind organizes the impressions that men get from the external world.
Immanuel Kant
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According to Immanuel Kant, it organizes the impressions that men get from the external world.
mind
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He proposes that we are actively synthesizing or organizing our knowledge and experiences so that we can call it “mine”.
Immanuel Kant
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For him, we are the ones who create our reality in which we are familiar and comfortable.
Immanuel Kant
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One of his concept was “Apparatus of the Mind” which consists of ideas that cannot be found in the world but is only built in our minds.
Immanuel Kant
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It was one of Immanuel Kant's concept which consists of ideas that cannot be found in the world but is only built in our minds
Apparatus of the Mind
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Examples of Apparatus of the Mind
time and space
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According to him, The “self” is an actively engaged intelligence in man that synthesizes all knowledge and experience.
Immanuel Kant
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According to Immanuel Kant, it is an actively engaged intelligence in man that synthesizes all knowledge and experience.
self
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it is also the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human person.
self
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He said, "I act, therefore I am"
Gilbert Ryle
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For him, our behaviors or what we do in our day-to-day lives were the ones that make us a person.
Gilbert Ryle
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According to him, "The mind and the body are so intertwined that they cannot be separated from one another"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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According to him, We cannot separate the mind and the body and these two works as one for us to know ourselves.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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According to him, One cannot find any experience that is not embodied experience. All experience is embodied. One’s body is his opening toward his existence to the world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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