Self From The Perspective Of Philosophy

Question 1

Study of many conditions of identity that makesone experience different from other experiences.

Answer 1

The Philosophy of Self

Question 2

Idea of a unified being(the person as a whole) which is connected and awareness.

Answer 2

SELF

Question 3

Study of investigating fundamental questions/concepts about existence, reasons, knowledge, and moral judgement.

Answer 3

PHILOSOPHY

Question 4

Philo and Sophy means?…

Answer 4

PHILO=LOVE + SOPHY=WISDOM

LOVE OF WISDOM

Question 5

Concerned with the problem of self (know the value/ purpose of life through soul searching and separate body from soul).

“Know oneself”
“An unexamined life is not worth living”

Answer 5

SOCRATES

Question 6

Socrates believe that every man is DUALISTIC. What are those?

Answer 6

BODY (MPERFECT & IMPERMANENT)
SOUL (PERFECT & PERMANENT)

Question 7

Self is the process of self-knowledge and soul purification ( existence of mind and soul).

Answer 7

PLATO

Question 8

Plato’s 3 components of soul:

Answer 8

1. RATIONAL SOUL
2. SPIRITED SOUL
3. APPETITIVE SOUL

Question 9

Reason and intellects ( makes wise choice and think deeply).

Answer 9

RATIONAL SOUL

Question 10

Emotion and Passion ( love, Anger, Ambition).

Answer 10

SPIRITED SOUL

Question 11

Basic Needs ( food, Sleep, Thirst, Sexual Desire).

Answer 11

APPETITIVE SOUL

Question 12

Following the view of Plato but adds christianity; The self is known only through God.

” I am doubting, therefore I am.”

Answer 12

ST. AUGUSTINE

Question 13

St. Augustine’s man is bifucated nature.

Answer 13

BODY (dies on earth)
SOUL ( lives eternally with God)

Question 14

Father of the Modern Philosophy; It’s the mind that makes the man.

“I think, therefore I am”

Answer 14

RENE DESCARTES

Question 15

Rene Descartes’ human person is?..

Answer 15

MIND ( COGNITO)
BODY ( EXTENZA)

Question 16

The body of a human is like an animal. What makes it different is his ESSENCE.

“The soul is what makes us human.”

Answer 16

ST.THOMAS AQUINAS

Question 17

St. Thomas Aquinas believes that man is?

Answer 17

MATTER (HYLE)
FORM (MORPHE)

Question 18

The self is nothing but an IMPRESSION( experience/sensation that forms the core of our thoughts) and IDEA( copies of impression/imagination).
“There is no self”

Answer 18

DAVID HUME

Question 19

Agrees with Hume but believes that there is a MIND that regulates these impressions.
“We construct the self.”

Answer 19

IMMANUEL KANT

Question 20

Disagree to Non Physical self/internal; Self is the behavior of a person that they do/make everyday.
“I act, therefore I am.”

Answer 20

GILBERT RYLE

Question 21

Body and Mind is inseperable; The living body emotions, thoughts, and experiences are all one; The k owledge of self comes from subjective experience.
“The body is his opening towards his existence of the world.”

Answer 21

MERLEAU PONTY

Question 22

Body and Soul are one (soul cannot exist without the body).
“Soul=essence of the self”
Soul makes a person, a person.

Answer 22

ARISTOTLE