The Self From Various Philisophical Perspective Flashcards
Objective
Aid students in understanding oneself
Different perspectives of self.
Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
Sociology
Philosophical perspective of self
Inquiry of the self
Move away from myths
The first Philosopher
Socrates
He engaged in systemic questioning about the self
Socrates
Said that true task of philosopher is to know one self
Socrates
Said that every man is composed of body and soul; all individuals have an imperfect, impermanent aspect to him, and the body, while maintaining that there is also a soul that is perfect and permanent.
Socrates
Supported the idea that man is a dual nature of body and soul.
Plato
Three components of the soul
Rational soul
Spirited soul
Appetitive soul
Added three components of the soul
Plato
Agreed that man is of a bifurcated nature; the body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God.
Saint Augustine
Can only thrive in the imperfect, physical reality that is the world
Body
Can also stay after death in an eternal realm with the all-transcendent God.
Soul
Said that man is composed of two parts: matter and form
Thomas Aquinas
Common stuff that makes up everything in the universe.
Matter
Essence of a substance or thing
Soul
Said that soul is what animates the body; it is what makes us humans
Thomas Aquinas
Conceived of the human person as having a body and a mind
Rene Descartes
The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to the mind
Rene Descartes
The human person has it but it is not what makes man a man. If at all, that is the mind.
Rene Descartes
The self is not an entity over and beyond the physical body
David Hume
Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing it
David Hume
Can be attain through experiencing it.
Knowledge
According to him 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
