Prelim Flashcards
Everyman is composed of body and soul-means that every human person is dualistic.
Socrates
Forged by reason & intellect has to govern the affairs of the human person.
Rational Soul
In charge of emotions should be kept at bay.
Spirited Soul
In charge of base desires like eating, drinking, sleeping and having sex.
Appetitive Soul
Man is of bifurcated nature. An aspect of man dwells in the world and is imperfect and continuously years to be with the Divine and the other is capable of reaching immortality.
Augustine
The soul is what animates the body; it is what makes us humans.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The only thing that one cannot doubt is the existence of the self, for even if one doubts oneself, that only proves that there is a doubting self.
Descartes
An empiricist who believes that one can know what comes from the senses and experiences.
David Hume
Basic objects of our experience or sensation.
Impression
Copies of impressions.
Ideas
Self is a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
David Hume
Consciousness is formed by one’s inner and outer sense.
Immanuel Kant
Composed of one’s psychological state and intellect.
Inner Sense
Consists of one’s senses and physical world.
Outer Sense
He suggested that it is an actively engaged intelligence on man that synthesizes all knowledge and experience.
Immanuel Kant
His theory is called logical behaviorism or analytical behaviorism - a theory of mind which states that mental concepts can be understood through observable events.
Gilbert Ryle
Mental concepts can be understood through observable events.
Logical Behaviorism
The mind and body are so intertwined that they cannot be separated from one another.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Lived and experienced.
Subjective
Observed and scientifically investigated.
Objective
All individuals have an imperfect, impermanent aspect- the body, while maintaining that there is also soul that is perfect and permanent.
Socrates
Distinct from other selves, always unique and has its own identity.
Separate
It can exist in itself. Its distinctiveness allows it to be self-contained with its own thoughts, characteristics and volition. It does not require any other self for it to exist.
Self-contained
It has a personality that is enduring and therefore can be expected to persist for quite some time. Its consistency allowed it to be studied, described and measured.
Consistent
