Philosophical View of The Self Flashcards

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is defined as a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment

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Philosopher

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Enumerate the 11 people who has concept of self

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Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
St. Augustine
St. Thomas
John Locke
Rene Descartes
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Gilbert Ryle
Maurice Merleau

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3
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Is a prominent figure in western Philosophy

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Socrates

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4
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“The unexamined life is not worth-living”

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Socrates

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What was the reason he was persecuted by the Athens?

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Corrupting the youth and impiety

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Ideal Realm: The soul is perfect and immortal
Physical Realm: The body is imperfect and mortal

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Dualism: Soul and Body

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7
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What is the main concept of self of Socrates?

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Dualistic View of Man

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He is a philosopher who is a student of socrates

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Plato

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9
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What did Plato believed in one’s individual self?

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It is an immortal soul in a mortal and perishable body.

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10
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It is part of the soul that part desires to exert reason and attain rational decisions.

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Rational soul

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It is part of soul where desires supreme honor.

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Spirited soul

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It is part of the soul that desires bodily pleasure such as food, drink, sex, etc.

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Appetitive soul

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13
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What is the concept of rational soul, spirited soul, and appetitive soul?

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Tripartite Soul

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14
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He taught the theory of Golden mean.

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Aristotle

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What does Golden mean teach?

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Emphasizes moderation - avoiding too much and too little.

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What does the Aristotle believed in about self?

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It is composed of body and soul are inseparable.

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17
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What does Aristotle calls man?

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A rational animal

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18
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What is Aristotle view of the soul is like?

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form of the human body that allows us to think, imagine, and perceive desire.

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19
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What is the concept of self of Aristotle?

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World: Matter and Form

20
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How does St. Augustine view the human person?

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Split between world, impefect part and an immortal soul.

21
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What is the concept of self of St. Augustine

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Bifurcated (split/branched) in nature

22
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He is a philosopher who adapted Aristotle’s view that mas has two parts, matter and form.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

23
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What are the 3 levels of soul of St. Thomas Aquinas?

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Vegetative powers, sense powers, and intellectual powers

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What is the concept of self of ST. Thomas Aquinas?

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Hylomorphism

25
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It is common stuff that makes up the entire universe.

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Hyle

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It is the essence or substance of the living thing.

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Morphe

27
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He believed that the self or personal identity is a psychological continuity and is founded through consciousness (memory)

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John Lock

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What concept did John Lock introduce?

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Tabula rasa

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What does tabula rasa mean?

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Empty mind

30
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It is shaped by experience, and sensations and reflections being the two sources of all our ideas.

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Empty mind

31
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He is regarded as the Father of Modern Philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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What did Rene Descartes famously declared?

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“I think, therefore I am”

33
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What is the concept of self of Rene Descartes?

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Cogito & Extenza

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The thing that thinks

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Cogito (Mind)

35
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extension of the mind

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Extenza (Body)

36
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What is Rene Descartes perspective in the self?

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Self is composed of two entities cogito and extenza, and that mind is makes a man.

37
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He believed that the self was an entity outside of the physical body, but rather a bundle of impressions.

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David Hume

38
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What is concept of self of David hume?

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Impressions and Ideas

39
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Are the basic objects of our experience or sensation

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Impressions

40
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are copies of impressions

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Ideas

41
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He opposed hume’s idea

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Immanuel Kant

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Mind that organizes the impression that men get from the world

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Apparatuses of the mind

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What is Immanuel Kant’s concept of self

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Apparatuses of the mind

44
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He believed that the self is not one entity one can locate and analyze but a simple the convenient name that people use to refer to all behaviors

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Gilbert Ryle

45
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The self is a name that people call all behaviors that a person makes

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Behaviors

46
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He is a phenomenologist that argues that the supposed divide between the mind and body is invalid, as they are inextricably linked.

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Maurice Merleau Ponty

47
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What is the concept of self of Maurice Merleau Ponty?

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Experiences, body and emotions