Philosophical

Question 1

Is credited for his many contributions to western philosophy especially by his student (Plato)

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

Reminds us to “know thyself”

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

“Know thyself”

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gnothi seauton

Question 4

‘If a person knows who he/she is, all basic issues and difficulties in life will vanish and everything will be clearer and simpler’

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Socrates

Question 5

Know yourself

Answer 5

Socrates

Question 6

The self is ________; it is something to work on not just a mere realization

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achieved

Question 7

Knowing one’s degree of understanding about world and knowing one’s capabilities and potential

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Self knowledge

Question 8

He believed man has a soul and a body that depend on each other. But the soul is what gives life to the body

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Dualist (Socrates)

Question 9

The ideal self, the perfect self

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Plato

Question 10

An ancient Greek Philosopher who was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle

Answer 10

Plato

Question 11

His idealism insisted that the ‘empirical reality’ we experience in the experiential world is fundamentally unreal and is only a shadow/ mere appearance. All things that exist in the physical world are unreal and all concrete objects

Answer 11

Plato

Question 12

_________ is real as it is eternal and constitutes abstract universal essence of things. Universal essences are real for they are immaterial blueprints of objects in the physical world

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Ultimate reality

Question 13

According to Plato, what is a man’s guiding star?

Answer 13

His/her former perfect self

Question 14

__________ (fruit of virtue) is attained by constant imitation of man’s former perfect self

Answer 14

Happiness

Question 15

Man was omniscient/all-knowing before he came to be born into this world.

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Perfect self

Question 16

Man was omniscient/all-knowing before he came to be born into this world. With the separation from the paradise of truth, man forgot most of the knowledge he/she had.nHowever, by constant remembering and contemplation and doing good, he can regain his former __________

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Perfection

Question 17

Also believed in dualism, that is in two aspects - imperfect (earthly) & temporary

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St. Augustine

Question 18

What are the 2 aspects of dualism according to St. Augustine?

Answer 18

• Imperfect (earthly)
• Temporary

Question 19

Sense of Self for him is his relation to God manifested in the love received from God and his response to it

Answer 19

St Augustine

Question 20

What are the 2 steps that lead to the idea of the self?

Answer 20

— Self- presentation
— Self- realization

Question 21

Cogito, ergo sum

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Rene Decartes

Question 22

What does ‘cogito, ergo sum’ mean?

Answer 22

I think, therefore I am

Question 23

According to Decartes, the existence of anything that you register from your senses can be _______

Answer 23

Doubted

Question 24

Man must use his/her _________ and _______ to investigate, analyze, experiment and develop himself

Answer 24

Mind and Thinking abilities (Decartes)

Question 25

Only humans have __________ (excessive pride) of musing such irreverent questions on existence and purpose of life

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Hubris (Decartes)

Question 26

Ability to be self-aware of its own existence, purpose and meaning

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Human mind

Question 27

Is a thinking thing or a substance whose whole essence or nature is merely thinking

Answer 27

The self (Decartes)

Question 28

Who stated that “The self and the body differ in existence and reality”

Answer 28

Rene Decartes

Question 29

Who stated that “Humans are the makers and the masters of their own universe”

Answer 29

Rene Decartes

Question 30

His main philosophy about personal identity or self is founded on consciousness or memory

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John Locke

Question 31

Is the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind

Answer 31

Consciousness

Question 32

Who stated that “Identity is in one’s consciousness”

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John Locke

Question 33

Concept posits that everyone started as a ‘blank slate’

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Tabula Rasa (John Locke)

Question 34

Who stated “What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions…”

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David Hume

Question 35

Who stated “The self- is a bundle of perceptions (objects of the mind) of interrelated events.

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David Hume

Question 36

Whose materialism views the soul as a product of the imagination? Any concept of the self is simply memory and imagination

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David Hume

Question 37

Who said “There is NO stable thing called self”?

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David Hume

Question 38

“What you think and feel constitute what you are at this very moment”

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David Hume

Question 39

Obliterates the perception one has

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Death (Humes)

Question 40

He rejects the idea that personal identity is reflected by the association of the self with an enduring body

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David Hume

Question 41

He theorized that consciousness is formed by one’s inner and outer sense

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Immanuel Kant

Question 42

Comprised of one’s psychological state and intellect

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Inner Sense

Question 43

One’s sense and the physical world

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Outer sense

Question 44

Consciousness of oneself and of one’s psychological state

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Empirical consciousness

Question 45

Consciousness of oneself and of one’s state via acts of apperception

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Transcendental apperception

Question 46

The faculty that allows for application of concepts; putting new ideas into context; Making sense of a unified object

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Apperception

Question 47

Should perform both the unity of consciousness and unity of apperception

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The mind

Question 48

“The picture constitue the YOU at the center of the universe, looking it from YOUR point of view.”

Answer 48

Immanuel Kant

Question 49

Insists that the self is real but it belongs to a different metaphysical class

Answer 49

Kant

Question 50

Psychoanalytic Theory

Answer 50

Sigmund Freud