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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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Is a prominent figure in western Philosophy

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Socrates

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

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Tripartite Soul

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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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What does Aristotle calls man?

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A rational animal

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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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What is the concept of self of Aristotle?

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World: Matter and Form

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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.

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What is the concept of self of St. Augustine

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Bifurcated (split/branched) in nature

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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

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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

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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”

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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)

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extension of the mind

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Extenza (Body)

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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.

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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

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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

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are copies of impressions

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Ideas

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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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What is Gilbert Ryle concept of self?

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Behavior

45
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the self is a name the people call all behavior a person makes.

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Behaviors

46
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A phenomenologist that argues the supposed divide between mind and body is invalid

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Maurice Merleau Ponty

47
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the living body, his thought, emotions and experiences are all one

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experiences, body and emotion

48
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He believe that self is a radical claim that our ordinary, common sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong

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Paul Churchland

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What is Paul Churchland concept of self?

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Eliminative Materialism

Understanding the Self :GE 1 (2 decks)

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