Philosophical perspective of the self

Question 1

The study of the basic principles of life, knowledge, reality, morality, human nature, etc., through the use of ______ and _____.

Answer 1

logic reason

Question 2

It opens the mind of people.

Answer 2

Philosophy

Question 3

It does not provide ultimate answers, despite the ultimate nature of philosophical ideas.

Answer 3

Philosophy

Question 4

Encourages individuals to ask questions and to seek answers for themselves.

Answer 4

Philosophy

Question 5

The center of ideas in pre-socratic era.

Answer 5

cosmo

Question 6

How to become a philosopher in our own manageable law?

Answer 6

1. Wonder
2. Search/seek for answers
3. If we have answer, it is not yet the ultimate answer.

Question 7

When does an individual start to philosophizing?

Answer 7

When one wonders

Question 8

There is a fundamental principle/thing that underlies everything else.

Answer 8

cosmo-centric

Question 9

He said that Earth flows on water.

Answer 9

Thales

Question 10

Anaximander theorize that the originating cause of the world is apeiron which means _______.

Answer 10

boundless something

Question 11

He said that air is the source of all things.

Answer 11

Anaximenes

Question 12

He said that everything is composed of atoms which are physically but geometrically indivisible, that between atom lies an empty space, and that atoms are indestructible.

Answer 12

Democritus

Question 13

He said everything is fire.

Answer 13

Heraclitus

Question 14

Heraclitus mentioned that everything is in ______ _____ or progression more so than chaos.

Answer 14

constant change

Question 15

He said that mind or the supreme principle is infinite.

Answer 15

Anaxagoras

Question 16

He focuses on numbers.

Answer 16

Pythagoras

Question 17

He is the first philosopher to engage in a systematic questioning of the self.

Answer 17

Socrates

Question 18

What are the dualistic reality according to Socrates?

Answer 18

body and soul

Question 19

soul

Answer 19

perfect and permanent

Question 20

body

Answer 20

imperfect and impermanent

Question 21

He is the student of Socrates.

Answer 21

Plato

Question 22

He coined the three parts of the self.

Answer 22

Plato

Question 23

What are the three parts of the self/soul based on Plato?

Answer 23

Reason
Physical appetite
spirit/passion

Question 24

It is the divine essence that lets us think deeply (wisdom)

Answer 24

Reason

Question 25

It is the basic biological needs.

Answer 25

Physical appetite

Question 26

It is the basic emotions.

Answer 26

Spirit/passion

Question 27

St. Augustine said that the self strives to achieve union with God through ______ and ______.

Answer 27

faith reason

Question 28

St. Augustine said that _____ is bound to Earth and the ______ anticipate.

Answer 28

body soul

Question 29

He coined the term “Cogito ergo sum.”

Answer 29

Rene Descartes

Question 30

It means I am able to think therefore I exist.

Answer 30

cogito ergo sum

Question 31

Opinions and actions on knowledge and reason rather than on religious beliefs or emotional response.

Answer 31

Rationalist

Question 32

It is thinking thing that can exist independently of the body but does not deny association of the body to it.

Answer 32

self

Question 33

He coined the dualism of the body which is the physical body and the spiritual self.

Answer 33

Rene Descartes

Question 34

Governed by the laws of reason and God’s will.

Answer 34

Spiritual body

Question 35

Governed by the laws of nature.

Answer 35

Physical body

Question 36

He coined the term, “tabularasa” which means “a blank slate.”

Answer 36

John Locke

Question 37

Knowledge is derived from experience derived from sense.

Answer 37

Empiricist

Question 38

He said that knowledge originates from our direct sense experience.

Answer 38

John Locke

Question 39

______ plays a subsequent role in figuring out the significance of our sense experience and in reaching intelligent conclusions.

Answer 39

Reason

Question 40

He said that “there is no self” but a bundle of expressions.

Answer 40

David Hume

Question 41

It is the basic sensations of expressions.

Answer 41

Impression

Question 42

It is the copies of impression.

Answer 42

ideas

Question 43

He contests Hume’s idea and said the we construct the self.

Answer 43

Immanuel Kant

Question 44

The self actively organizes all the _______ and _______ into a picture that makes sense to each of us.

Answer 44

sensations thoughts

Question 45

It is a subject organizing principle that makes unified and intelligible experience possible.

Answer 45

Self

Question 46

According to him, self is multi-layered.

Answer 46

Sygmund Freud

Question 47

It is the self that said thoughts, memories, feelings and wishes we are aware at a given time.

Answer 47

conscious

Question 48

It is the self that consists of anything that can potentially be brought into conscious mind.

Answer 48

pre-conscious

Question 49

It is the reservoir of our thoughts, urges, and memories that are mostly unacceptable or unpleasant.

Answer 49

unconscious

Question 50

Regions of the mind.

Answer 50

id
ego
superego

Question 51

pleasure seeking principle

Answer 51

id

Question 52

reality principle

Answer 52

ego

Question 53

moralistic principle

Answer 53

superego

Question 54

He said that the mind/brain is the self.

Answer 54

Paul Churchland

Question 55

He said that the mind and body are intertwined that they cannot be separated from each other.

Answer 55

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Question 56

For him, the living body, the thoughts, and experiences are one.

Answer 56

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Question 57

It is the ultimate goal in life according to Aristotle

Answer 57

eudaimonia (happiness)