Understanding the Self

Question 1

He stated that when we are alive our body and soul are attached

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

Self exist is 2 parts what is it?

Answer 2

Soul

Physical

Question 3

It is tangible and mortal

Answer 3

Physical

Question 4

It is immortal and the true self

Answer 4

Soul

Question 5

When we die our physical body stays in the?

Answer 5

Physical realm

Question 6

When we die our physical body stays in the?

Answer 6

Physical realm

Question 7

He stated that when we die our soul and physical disattached

Answer 7

Socartes

Question 8

He stated that “ ignorance is the beginning of wisdom”.

Answer 8

Socrates

Question 9

He stated that our true self is our soul

Answer 9

Socrates

Question 10

(469-399 B.C)

Answer 10

Socartes

Question 11

( 428-348 B.C)

Answer 11

Plato

Question 12

He stated that the self is an mortal and perishable body

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

The soul has a tripartite nature what is it?

Answer 13

1. soul - or an immortal rational part which existed before it became part of the body, 2. a courageous or “spirited” part
2. an appetitive part

Question 14

In what kind of book that plato creat states that, the soul is the “giver of life to the body?

Answer 14

Book IV of Plato’s Republic

Question 15

He stated that, our life is a “continuous” ascent towards the world of ideas

Answer 15

Plato

Question 16

(384-322 B.С.)

Answer 16

ARISTOTLE

Question 17

He believed that the self is composed of body and soul, mind and matter, sense and intellect, passion and reason

Answer 17

Aristotle

Question 18

He believed that the self is composed of body and soul, mind and matter, sense and intellect, passion and reason

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

He believed that Reason is supreme in a human person and so should govern all of life’s activities. When the senses, the lower nature of a human person, dominate a human person’s life, he/she tends to live a chaotic life. When reason rules over the senses, mind over matter, the human person tends to live a happy life.

Answer 19

Aristotle

Question 20

According to Aristotle what is the meaning of the “Golden Mean”?

Answer 20

The Golden Mean means moderation; avoid the extremes; avoid too much and too little. Living a life of moderation is doing things in consonance with reason.

Question 21

(354-430 A.D.)

Answer 21

ST. AUGUSTINE

Question 22

He combined Greek philosophy and truths contained in the Scriptures

Answer 22

Saint Augustine

Question 23

He believed that The self is made up of a body and a soul, “a soul in possession of a body” which “does not constitute two persons but one man

Answer 23

Saint Augustine

Question 24

he believed that the concept of self is in the context of his relation to God. Every human person is created into the image and likeness of God. Every human person is made for God. It is only upon his/her recognition of God’s love and his/her response to the invitation to love that he/she finds inner peace.

Answer 24

St. Augustine

Question 25

He believed that Happiness is the end-all and the be-all of human living and this happiness can be found in God alone.

Answer 25

St. Augustine

Question 26

At his conversion, he remarked “You have made our hearts for Thee, O God and so they will find rest only in Thee.”

Answer 26

St. Augustine

Question 27

According to St. Augustine, virtue is “the order of what aspect?

Answer 27

Love

Question 28

(1225-1274)

Answer 28

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS