Uself midterm reviewer Flashcards
» came from the words “philo” which means love
and “sophia” which means wisdom
PHILOSOPHY
“Take care of your body as if you were
going to live forever, take care of your
soul as if you were going to die
tomorrow.”
» focuses on the goodness, divine, and GOD.
ST. AUGUSTINE
“An unexamined life is not worth living”
» focuses more on the self.
» The first philosopher to engage in a systematic
questioning about the self
» He believes that our body or individual’s reality is
divided by two parts.
» For Socrates, every man is composed of body
and
soul.
» DUALISM
SOCRATES
“I think, therefore I am.”
» Father of Modern Philosophy
» There is so much we should doubt.
RENE DESCARTES
» cognition or thinking
COGITO
» extension of the mind and body
EXTENZA
» consists of the world that we are living in.
» the world that changes and temporary.
PHYSICAL REALM
“There is no self.”
» The most controversial.
» Self doesn’t exist and self is just a combination
of perceptions.
DAVID HUME
» concepts about the universe, truth, goodness
and
beauty.
» things that does not undergo changes and are
ever-lasting.
IDEAL REALM
» the basic object of our experience or sensation.
IMPRESSIONS
» copies of impressions
IDEAS
» the ability to consciously reflect on one’s own
thoughts.
INTROSPECTION
“All our knowledge begins with the senses,
proceeds then to the understanding, and ends
with reason. There is nothing higher than
reason.”
» mind and reason.
APPARATUS OF THE MIND
» which consists of ideas that cannot be found in
the world but is only built in our minds (e.g. time
and space).
IMMANUEL KANT
“The soul is synonymous with the self.”
» He supported Socrates’ idea that a man is a dual
nature of body and soul.
» self is temporary and soul is eternal
THE TRIPARTITE SOUL
» Rational- forged by reason and intellect.
» Spirited- in charge of emotions.
» Appetitive- our desire that we need enable to
live
PLATO
“I act, therefore I am.”
» focuses on our behavior.
» Our behavior is what makes us a person.
GILBERT RYLE
“The mind and the body are so intertwined that
they cannot be separated from one another.”
» We cannot separate mind and body.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
» a human child who has lived isolated from
human contact from a young age with little no
experience of human care, behavior, or human
language. They are typically portrayed at being
raised by animals.
» Feral children challenged the long standing
notion of humans being special.
FERRAL CHILD or WILD CHILD
» a French sociologist, believes that the self has
two faces; the personne and moi.
MARCEL MAUSS
» person’s sense of who he is, his body, basic
identity, biological givenness.
MOI
» is a social concept of what it means to be who
he is. What it means to live in a particular
institution, family, religion, nationality, or how to
behave in given expectations/influences.
THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
SOCIAL WORLD
PERSONNE
» A noted Feral Child who was sold to a
goatherder to become a serf
» He later became the subject of the film
Entrelobos or Among Wolves movie.
MARCOS RODRIGUEZ PANTOJA
» distinct from any other selves
» always unique and has its own identity.
SEPARATE
» a philosopher, psychologist and sociologist,
supports the view that a person develops a
sense of self through social interaction.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
» allows it to be studied, described, and
measured.
CONSISTENCY
» The or the social self, is what is learned in
interaction with others and with the environment
other people’s attitudes, once internalized in the
self, all form the Me.
» The “Me” disciplines the “I” by holding it back
from breaking the law of the community.
“ME”