UNDERSTANDING SELF

Question 1

Our bodies belong to the physical realm, they change, their imperfect and they die. Our souls however belong to the ideal realm, they are unchanging and immortal, surviving the death of the body.

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 1

greek word of soul

Answer 1

psyche

Question 2

To live an examined life, a life of purpose and value, we must begin at the source of all knowledge and significance – our self

Answer 2

socrates

Question 3

introduced the idea of three part soul

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plato

Question 4

three part soul of plato

Answer 4

reason, physical appetite, spirit/passion

Question 5

our divine essence that enables us to think deeply, make wise choices, and achieve a true understanding of eternal truths.

Answer 5

Reason

Question 6

our basic biological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire.

Answer 6

Physical Appetite

Question 7

our basic emotions such as love, anger, ambition, aggressiveness, empathy.

Answer 7

spirit/passion

Question 8

founder of modern philosophy

Answer 8

rene descartes

Question 9

Brought an entirely new—and thoroughly modern—perspective to philosophy in general and the self in particular.

Answer 9

rene descartes

Question 10

is convinced that committing yourself to a wholesale and systematic doubting of all things you have been taught to simply accept without question is the only way to achieve clear and well-reasoned conclusions.

Answer 10

rene descartes

Question 11

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

Answer 11

rene descartes

Question 12

what is the essence of existing according to rene descartes

Answer 12

being aware of ourselves/ self- conscious is important to have personal identity

Question 13

essence of self according to rene descartes

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we are thinking being

Question 14

i think therefore i am

Answer 14

rene descartes

Question 15

To discover the nature of personal identity, we’re going to have to find out what it means to be a person.

Answer 15

john locke

Question 16

person is a thinking, intelligent being who has the abilities to reason and to reflect.

Answer 16

john locke

Question 17

essence of self according to john locke

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conscious awareness of self as thinking, reasoning, reflecting identity

Question 18

how to understand self according to john locke

Answer 18

conscious awareness and memory of previous experiences

Question 19

According to Hume, if we carefully examine the contents of our experience, we find that there are only two distinct entities

Answer 19

impression and ideas

Question 20

the basic sensations of our experience, the elemental data of our minds: pain, pleasure, heat, cold, happiness, grief, fear, exhilaration, and so on. These impressions are “lively” and “vivid.”

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impression

Question 21

The sensations of experience are necessary for knowledge, but they are in reality the “grist” for our mental “mills.” Our minds actively synthesize and relate these sensations in the process of creating an intelligible world. As a result, the sensations of immediate experience conform to our minds, rather than the reverse. We construct our world through these conceptual operations, and as a result, this is a world in which we can gain insight and knowledge.

Answer 21

immanuel kant

Question 22

it’s our self that makes experiencing an intelligible world possible, because it’s the self that is responsible for synthesizing the discreet data of sense experience into a meaningful whole. Metaphorically, our self is the weaver who, using the loom of the mind, weaves together the fabric of experience into a unified whole so that it becomes my experience, my world, my universe. Without our self to perform this synthesizing function, our experience would be unknowable, a chaotic collection of sensations without coherence or significance.

Answer 22

immanuel kant

Question 23

view of the self leads to an analogous dualistic view of the self,

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sigmund freud

Question 24

view of the self was multitiered, divided among the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

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sigmund freud

Question 25

self that holds the greatest fascination for Freud, and which has the dominant influence in our personalities.

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unconscious

Question 26

Essential to an understanding of Freud’s conception of the unconscious is the———. When such a model is employed, human experience is viewed as the product not simply of our conscious wishes, desires, and intentions, but also of our unconscious wishes and desires.

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psychoanalytic model of split level

Question 27

characterized by the most primitive level of human motivation and human functioning

Answer 27

unconscious level

Question 28

contains basic instinctual drives including sexuality, aggressiveness, and self-destruction; traumatic memories; unfulfilled wishes and childhood fantasies; thoughts and feelings that would be considered socially taboo.

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unconscious

Question 29

self is governed by the “reality principle” (rather than the “pleasure principle”),

Answer 29

conscious self

Question 30

___ model of the mind divided it into systems on the basis of their relationship to consciousness: ____

Answer 30

Freud’s Topographical model
conscious, preconscious, unconscious

Question 31

small amount of mental activity we do, thoughts perceptions

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conscious

Question 32

things we could be aware of if we wanted or tried, memories stored knowledge

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subconscious

Question 33

things we are not aware of and cannot be aware of

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unconscious

Question 34

part of the subconscious mind comprises of eros and thanatos

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id

Question 35

Freud developed a Structural model of the mind that divided it according to mental functions

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ego (testing reality), superego (ideals and morals, striving for perfection, incorporated from parents, becoming peron’s conscience), id (basic impulses, sex and aggression, irrational and impulsive)

Question 36

u can be certain of improving and that is yourself

Answer 36

aldous huxley