Understanding the Self Flashcards
A way of thinking about certain subjects such as ethics, thought, existence, time, meaning and value.
* Deals with the problems of knowledge
PHILOSOPHY
“COGITO ERGO SUM” - I think, therefore I am
DESCARTES
5 PHILOSOPHERS
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- St. Augustine
- Descartes
“Know thyself”
SOCRATES
Knowing others is ______. Knowing the self is ______.
WISDOM. ENLIGHTENMENT.
Mastering others requires _______.
Mastering the self requires _______.
FORCE.
STRENGTH.
Knowledge of oneself can be achieved only through _______
SOCRATIC METHOD
TRUE OR FALSE
- Socrates is viewed by many as tye founding figure of Eastern Philosophy
FALSE - WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
A method in which it is not conveying knowledge. Rather, asking questions after clarifying question until his students arrived at their own understanding.
SOCRATIC METHOD
Plato is a dualist; there is both
_______ (soul) and ________. And it is the soul that knows the forms
Immaterial body (soul) Material body
TRUE OR FALSE
Aristotle believed that the soul exist before birth and after death
FALSE. PLATO not ARISTOTLE
According to Plato, soul (mind) is divided into 3 parts
1.
2.
3.
- Reason
- Appetite (physical urge)
- Will (emotions)
Aristitle defined the soul as _______
The core essence of a living being
TRUE OR FALSE
Aristotle did not consider the soul as some kind of separate, ghostly occupant of the body. Example, if a knife had a soul, the act of cutting would be that soul because “cutting” is the essence of what it is to be a knife.
TRUE
Aristotle used his concept of the soul in many of his works like: the ______
DE ANIMA (On the Soul)
According to St. Augustine, identity is achieved through a two fold process:
1.
2.
- Self presentation
2. Self realization
It is the study of human social relationships and institutions.
SOCIOLOGY
His theory is about “mind, self and society”
George Herbert Mead
It is important to Mead about his social theory because this occurs within a communicative process.
ACTION
In sociology, ______ is a relatively stable set of perceptions of who we are in relation to ourselves, others and to social systems.
SELF
Give 3 names of sociologist:
1.
2.
3.
- George Herbert Mead
- Irving Goffman
- Charles Horton Cooley
He was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association and his best known contributions to social theory is the study of _______.
Irving Goffman.
Symbolic interaction
5 major works of Irving Goffman:
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956)
- Asylum (1961)
- Stigma (1963)
- Interaction Ritual (1967)
- Forms of Talk (1981)
His theory is the “looking glass self”
Charles Horton Cooley
Cooley wrote that people’s ideas of themselves have 3 principal elements:
- Imagination of our appearance to the other person
- Imagination of his judgment of that appearance
- Self-feeling, such as pride or mortification
3 Activities that develop the self:
- Language
- Play
- Game
TRUE OR FALSE
Mead develops William James’ distinction between the “I” and the “ME”
TRUE
It is more subjective and psychological phenomenon, referring to individuals’ felection about themselves. This is the accumulated understanding of “the generalized other”; it is the self as the object; it is the “known”
ME SELF
This reflects what people see or perceive themselves doing in the physical world. This is the individuals impulses; it is the self as subject and it is the “knower”
I SELF
“Antropos” means ______
“Logos” means _____
HUMAN
STUDY
It is a study of the origins of humans, how we changes over the years, and how we relate to each orger, both within our own culture and with other people’s culture as as well.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Different aspects of the human experience is called ______
Holism
Anthropologists have employed the term “identity (self” to refer to this idea of selfhood in a loosely ___________ which is the uniqueness and individuality that makes a person distinct from others.
ERIKSONIAN WAY (Erikson 1972)
It is a complex whole. It consists of knowledge, beliefs, ideas, habuts, attitudes, skills, abilities, values, norms, arts, laws etc. and other capabilities of a man.
CULTURE
It is what we called the blackhole; when we are not filling ourselves with live through our spirituak connection, its like a vacuum trying to pull love from others.
SELF-ABANDONMENT
It brings us into contact with different ways of life and challenges our awareness of just how arbitrary our own understanding of the world…
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
This guides or models of behavior which tells us what is appropriate or not appropriate.
NORMS
Everyday habits, customs, traditions, and conventions. Example, saying “po or opo”
FOLKWAYS