Philosophers about Self Flashcards
Reflects on and seeks to answer reality, knowledge, and values
Philosophy
Philos
Love
Sophia
Wisdom
Philosophy is called
Mother of all disciplines
Science of study of mind and behavior
Psychology
Logos
Science
Psyche
Mind/Self
Study of the social life of individuals, groups, and societies
Sociology
A unified being, essentially connected to consciousness, awareness, and agency
Self
Known as market philosopher
Socrates
What did Socrates say?
“Know thyself.”
If we know ourselves, we could now act according to their definition of the self without ______ and ______
Doubt and Contradiction
What did Socrates say when he held the question of who a man is?
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates is a?
Dualist
Human, mortal, multiform, unintelligible, dissoluble, and inconsistent
Body
Divine, immortal, intelligible, uniform, indissoluble, and self-consistent and invariable
Soul
Describe man’s existence according to Socrates
Man’s existence was first in the realm of ideas and exists as a soul or pure mind. This soul has knowledge by direct intuition, which is stored in his mind. However, once he came to the material world or the world of senses, he needed to remember most of what he knew.
An exchange of questions and answers that ultimately aims to make the person remember all the knowledge they have forgotten, including their former omniscient self.
Socratic method/Dialectic method
In Socratic Method, answers are always ______
subjective
For Socrates, ___________ means knowing one’s degree of understanding about the world and one’s capabilities and potentials
Self-knowledge
For Socrates, a ______ is a virtue, and ______ is a vice.
possession of knowledge, ignorance
What did Plato say?
“Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself.”
He argued that the soul is eternal and constitutes the enduring self because the soul continues to exist even after death.
Plato
The permanent, unchanging reality
Ideal World/World of Forms