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The Self From Various Philisophical Perspective Flashcards

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Objective

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Aid students in understanding oneself

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Different perspectives of self.

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Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
Sociology

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Philosophical perspective of self

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Inquiry of the self
Move away from myths

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The first Philosopher

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Socrates

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He engaged in systemic questioning about the self

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Socrates

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Said that true task of philosopher is to know one self

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Socrates

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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.

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Socrates

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Supported the idea that man is a dual nature of body and soul.

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Plato

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Three components of the soul

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Rational soul
Spirited soul
Appetitive soul

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Added three components of the soul

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Plato

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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.

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Saint Augustine

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Can only thrive in the imperfect, physical reality that is the world

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Body

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Can also stay after death in an eternal realm with the all-transcendent God.

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Soul

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Said that man is composed of two parts: matter and form

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Thomas Aquinas

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Common stuff that makes up everything in the universe.

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Matter

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Essence of a substance or thing

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Soul

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Said that soul is what animates the body; it is what makes us humans

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Thomas Aquinas

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Conceived of the human person as having a body and a mind

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Rene Descartes

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The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to the mind

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Rene Descartes

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The human person has it but it is not what makes man a man. If at all, that is the mind.

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Rene Descartes

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The self is not an entity over and beyond the physical body

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David Hume

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Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing it

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David Hume

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Can be attain through experiencing it.

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Knowledge

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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.”

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David Hume

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