QUIZ 1 - PRELIMS Flashcards
Who are the philosophers on the Medieval and Ancient era?
Sacrates, Plato, Saint Agustine
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
Self means examined life
Socrates
Three elements of psyche
Apetitve, Mind, Spirited
one’s pleasurs, desire, physical satisfaction, comfort
Apetitive
Motivated element, which fights back to ensure that the apetitive is controlled.
Spirited
It is the most superior element of the psyche, which controls how self is expressed.
Mind
“Human behavior flows from three sources; desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
Plato
The development of the self is achieved through the two elements. What are the two elements?
Self presentation and Self realization
“This is the very perfection of man; to find out his own imperfections.”
Saint Agustine
Able to present who you really are
Self Presentation
To fix yourself and realize to fix what’s wrong
Self realization
Happiness can be achieved through____
God
Who are the modern philosophers?
Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant
The perspective of this era about the self is as a dialectic synthesis between rationalism and empiricism
Modern Philosophies
“I think, therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes
Everything must be subjected to doubt
Methodic Doubt
We need reasons to:
Evaluate thoughts, Evaluate actions, establish firm foundation, protect onself, build knowledge
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to usenit well.”
Rene Descartes
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
John Locke
What is the concept of John Locke?
Tabula Rasa
It explains how the self-starts out as an empty space
Tabula Rasa
