USELF COLLEGE QUIZ REVIEWER Flashcards
“Knowing others is intelligence, but
knowing yourself is WISDOM.”
Lao Tzu
“We live in a world of loneliness”
Johann Yari
Can be shed, can change and it’s health depends on the environment
Personality
It’s immovable takes longer to develop, and stays strong even in the harshest of weathers
Character
is a human and consequently, a social activity that
consists in man a perennial and a disinterested search for the
intelligible structures of the totality of being.
Philosophy
is not to be identified with what we own,
with our social status, our reputation, or even with
our body.
Famously maintained his view that our true self is
our soul.
Every man is composed of body and soul.
All individuals have an imperfect, impermanent
aspect, the body while maintaining that there is
also a soul that is perfect and permanent.
Socrates
Man is the soul enclosed in a body.” driven by impulses,
reasoning, and feeling.
plato
three components to the soul
Rational
spirited
appetitive
considered the soul as the
essential element of a man that governs
himself and is geared towards the good.
● There is an aspect of man, which dwells in the
world, that is imperfect and continuously
yearns to be with the divine while the other is
capable of reaching immortality.
● The “self” was an inner, immaterial “I” that
comprises self-knowledge and self-awareness.
St. Augustine
believed the mind is the seat of
our consciousness. Because it houses our drives,
intellect, and passions, it gives us our identity and
our sense of self.
Rene Descartes
speaks of personal identity and survival
of consciousness after death.
holds that personal identity is a matter of
psychological continuity.
He considered personal identity (or the self) as a
synthesis of consciousness informed by memories of
experience, and not on the substance of either the
soul or the body.
Experiences are the keys to understanding the self.
John Locke
believes that the SELF is nothing but a
bundle of impressions.
● Reflections of experiences will lead them to two selfdescriptions: impressions and ideas.
Impressions: an idea, feeling, or opinion about
something or someone, especially one formed without
conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.
Ideas: a thought or suggestion as to a possible
course of action.
● A person can never observe oneself without some
other perceptions.
David Hume
view on the “SELF” is transcendental,
which means the “self” is related to a spiritual or
nonphysical realm.
● The self is not in the body, and it does not have the
qualities of the body.
● Two components of the “SELF”
1. Inner self how we became aware of
alterations in our own state. Ex. Moods, feelings,
sensations, pleasure, and pain
2. Outer self which includes the senses and the
physical world.
Immanuel Kant
believes that the SELF is of the three
layers of an individual characterized as the subject of
physical, and mental actions, and experiences.
● He believed that the
1. Id is the first part of the self to develop. It’s the
seat of all our desires and wants.
2. Ego is the reason and self-control.
3. Superego is your quest for perfection where
conscience and your concept of the ideal self.
Sigmund Freud
believed that SELF comes from
behavior.
● He provided the distinction between mind and
body as” the dogma of the ghost in the machine”
where he explained that there is no hidden entity
of ghost called “soul/self” inside a machine called
the “body”.
Gilbert Ryle
