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