philosophers Flashcards
Founder of western philosopher
Socrates
Socrates
systematic questioning about the self
true task of philosopher is to know oneself
Every man is composed of body and soul
socrates
Plato
supported the idea that man is a dual nature of body and soul
Three components of the soul
rational soul
spirited soul
appetitive soul
What is rational soul
way of thinking
reasoning
judging
What is appetitive soul
soul of cravings
desires and cravings of a person
What is spirited soul
accountable of emotions
Augustine
man is a bifurcated nature
body is bound to die on earth and soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm
Thomas Aquinas
man is composed of two parts; matter and form
soul is what animates the body, it is what makes us human
matter or hyle in greek
common stuff that makes up everything in the universe
form or morphe in greek
essence of a substance or a thing
Rene Descartes
father of modern philosophy
conceived of a human person as having a body and mind
body is nothing else but a machine attached to the mind
What is cogito ergo sum
i think therefor, i am
John Locke
british philosopher
Tabula Rasa
john locke, a blank state
David Hume
self is not an entity over and beyond the physical body
it can only attain knowledge through experienced
a bundle or collection of different perceptions
Immanuel Kant
everything starts with perception and sensation of impressions
seat of knowledge acquisition for all human persons
apparatuses of mind
time and space are ideas that one cannot find in the world, but is built in our minds
Gilbert Ryle
Denying the internal and non-physical self, what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifest day to day life
self is not an entity one can locate
Merleau-Ponty
mind and body is intertwined they cannot be separated from one another
one cannot fine experience that is not an embodied experience
the living body, his thoughts, emotions, experiences are all one
Sigmund Freud
human psyche (personality) has more than one aspect
Three parts of human psyche
id, ego, superego