UNDERSTANDING THE SELF - PHILOSOPHICAL SELF Flashcards
a unified being, essentially connected to consciousness, awareness, and agency
SELF
The ruler of the body is our soul
Socrates
An unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
3 concepts of Socrates
Soul before body
Dialectic/Socratic method
Self-knowledge
Enduring self is _____
Soul
3 concepts of Plato
Contemplation method
Theory of forms: Ideal and Material world
He believed that self is represented by the soul. We are souls only
Plato
For him, material world is just our temporary home
St. Augustine
ST. AUGUSTINE - time is a property of the mind. 3
Past is memory
Present is experience
Future is expectation
I think, therefore; I am
Rene Descartes
WHO? Mind and body are separate and one cannot work without the another
Rene Descartes
WHO? Mind and body are separate and one cannot work without the another. He’s a rationalist
Rene Descartes
What worries you masters you
John Locke
is the perception of what passes in one’s mind
Consciousness
He rejected that brain has something to do with the consciousness
John Locke
What theory tells that we are the same person as the past for as long as we remember something from the past
Memory theory
Everyone started as a blank state. Content is provided with experiences over time
Tabula rasa
He disregarded the concept of self; No stable self
David Hume
He rejected that the personal identity is reflected by the self with an enduring body, because for him self is simply memory and imagination
David Hume
DAVID HUME mind is divided into 2:
Impressions and Ideas
WHO? There is nothing higher than reason; Man is a free agent, capable of making a decision for himself.
Immanuel Kant
Concepts of Immanuel Kant:
Freedom and consequences; Perception concept; Inner sense and Outer sense
Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
For Sigmund Freud mind is made up of
consciousness and uncosciousness
For Sigmund Freud mind is made up of
consciousness and unconsciousness
Discuss the Tripartite division of man’s mind
ID - pleasure principles
EGO - reality principles
SUPEREGO - morality principles
I act, therefore; I am.
Gilbert Ryle
For him, the mind is not separate from the body. Mind is a part of our body.
Gilbert Ryle
