Und Self Flashcards
The Ancient Triumvirate
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Post-Aristotelians
Stoicsism
Hedonism
Epicureanism
Moderate pleasure, contemt with simple things
Epicureanism
Apathy or indifference to pleasure
Stoicism
Pleasure is good, pain is evil
Hedonism
Question of life and salvation in another realm, in a better world (afterlife)
Theo-centric
He integrates platonic ideas with the tenets of christianity
“The self strives to achieve union with God through faith and reason”
St. Augustine
He tells us that our knowledge is based on our encounters of things
St. Thomas Aquinas
Thinkers begin to reject the scholastics’ exessive reliance on authority
Anthropocentric
“The self is a thinking thing, distinct from the body”
Rene Decartes
“There is no self, only a bundle of constant changing perceptions passing through the theater of our minds”
David Hume
“Personal identity is made possible by self-conciousness”
John Locke
“The self is a unifying subject, an organizing conciousness that makes intelligible experience possible
Imannuel Kant
“The self is the way people behave”
Gilbert Ryle
Father of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Frued
Thoughts and feelings that we are aware of
Concious thoughts
Experiences that are unconscious but could become conscious
Preconsious Thoughts
Contains all drives, urges, and instincts that are beyond our awareness but motivate our feelings, thoughts, and behaviour
Unconsious thoughts
Represents the basic need of man, if not satisfied, could result in stress and tension
ID