Philosophical perspective in understanding the self

Question 1

The 1st Philosopher who ever engaged in a systematic questioning about the “self” thus, every human is indebted to know oneself. “know thyself”

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

The self is an important quality of human that is present upon birth and that self- awareness is natural.

Answer 2

Self is Innate

Question 3

The self has various components that undergoes change through time.

Answer 3

Self is Integrated and developing

Question 4

The self is an outcome of interaction with the physical as well as the social world.

Answer 4

Self is Emergent

Question 5

Question were mainly focused on the ___ which explains the world multiplicity of things in the world.

Answer 5

Arche

Question 6

He emphasized that justice in the human can only attained if the three parts of the soul.

Answer 6

Plato

Question 7

He combined the ancient views (Socrates & Plato) and Christianity and believed that man is of BIFURCATED NATURE.

Answer 7

Augustine

Question 8

He is the says human beings are able to perform their characteristic activities of the life including growth, nutrition, reproduction, perception, imagination, desire, and thinking.

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

Father of Modern Philosophy and considered as a rationalist

Answer 9

Rene Descartes

Question 10

Believed that man is composed of two parts: “matter” (body) and “form” (essence of a substance or thing)

Answer 10

Thomas Aquinas

Question 11

He claimed that mental vocabulary is merely a different way of describing action, and that a person’s motives are defined by that person’s dispositions to act in certain situations.

Answer 11

Gilbert Ryle

Question 12

He believed the mind is compose of three levels

Answer 12

Sigmund Freud

Question 13

He harmonized the contradicting ideas of rationalists and empiricists FOR HE BELIEVED THAT knowledge can be drawn from the integration of sensory experience and conceptual understanding.

Answer 13

Immanuel Kant

Question 14

He believed that knowledge comes from the senses and experiences and the self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions (basic objects of our experience or sensation).

Answer 14

David Hume

Question 15

He postulated that the human mind at birth is a blank slate or TABULA RASA - at birth, mind is like a blank tablet that gathers its contents through experiences.

Answer 15

John Locke

Question 16

He said, proponent of Eliminative Materialism which maintains that the self is inseparable from the brain and the physiology of the body. Thus the “ self is the brain” It is the physical brain and not the imaginary mind, that gives us our sense of self.

Answer 16

Paul Churchland

Question 17

Believed that the self is embodied subjectivity through which the perception is not merely a consequence of sensory experience; rather, it is a conscious experience.

Answer 17

Maurice Merleau- Ponty

Question 18

Give the three componential elements by Plato

Answer 18

Rational
Spirited Soul
Appetitive Soul

Question 19

Who are the philosophers of the Self is Innate

Answer 19

Socrates, Plato, Augustine, and Rene Descartes

Question 20

Aristotle’s philosophy of self was constructed in terms of HYLOMORPHISM in which the soul of a human being is the ___ and the structure of the human body is the human ___

Answer 20

form, matter