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