Self From The Perspective Of Philosophy Flashcards
Study of many conditions of identity that makesone experience different from other experiences.
The Philosophy of Self
Idea of a unified being(the person as a whole) which is connected and awareness.
SELF
Study of investigating fundamental questions/concepts about existence, reasons, knowledge, and moral judgement.
PHILOSOPHY
Philo and Sophy means?…
PHILO=LOVE + SOPHY=WISDOM
LOVE OF WISDOM
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”
SOCRATES
Socrates believe that every man is DUALISTIC. What are those?
BODY (MPERFECT & IMPERMANENT)
SOUL (PERFECT & PERMANENT)
Self is the process of self-knowledge and soul purification ( existence of mind and soul).
PLATO
Plato’s 3 components of soul:
- RATIONAL SOUL
- SPIRITED SOUL
- APPETITIVE SOUL
Reason and intellects ( makes wise choice and think deeply).
RATIONAL SOUL
Emotion and Passion ( love, Anger, Ambition).
SPIRITED SOUL
Basic Needs ( food, Sleep, Thirst, Sexual Desire).
APPETITIVE SOUL
Following the view of Plato but adds christianity; The self is known only through God.
” I am doubting, therefore I am.”
ST. AUGUSTINE
St. Augustine’s man is bifucated nature.
BODY (dies on earth)
SOUL ( lives eternally with God)
Father of the Modern Philosophy; It’s the mind that makes the man.
“I think, therefore I am”
RENE DESCARTES
Rene Descartes’ human person is?..
MIND ( COGNITO)
BODY ( EXTENZA)
The body of a human is like an animal. What makes it different is his ESSENCE.
“The soul is what makes us human.”
ST.THOMAS AQUINAS
St. Thomas Aquinas believes that man is?
MATTER (HYLE)
FORM (MORPHE)
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”
DAVID HUME
Agrees with Hume but believes that there is a MIND that regulates these impressions.
“We construct the self.”
IMMANUEL KANT
Disagree to Non Physical self/internal; Self is the behavior of a person that they do/make everyday.
“I act, therefore I am.”
GILBERT RYLE
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.”
MERLEAU PONTY
Body and Soul are one (soul cannot exist without the body).
“Soul=essence of the self”
Soul makes a person, a person.
ARISTOTLE
