UTS Flashcards
Believed that the self exists in two parts: the physical, tangible, and mortal aspects that are constantly changing. Second part is the soul, which is immortal
Socrates
“Ignorance is the beginning of wisdom “
“Know thyself”
Socrates
Believed that self is an immortal soul in a mortal perishable body.
Plato
Based on him, the soul has a tripartite nature: reason, spirit, appetite
Plato
Based on him, self consists of body and soul, mind and matter, sense and intellect, passion and reason
Aristotle
Based on Aristotle, self consists of
body and soul, mind and matter, sense and intellect, passion and reason
Supreme in a human person and so should govern all of life’s activities
Reason
He does not neglect the development of a human person’s physical, economic, and social powers.
Aristotle
It means moderation; avoid the extremes
Golden mean
Perfection and happiness come from wisdom and virtue
Aristotle
Self is made up of a body and a soul, “a soul is possession of a bidy”
St. Augustine
His concept of self is in the context of his relation to God. Every human person is created from the image and likeness of God.
St. Augustine
The self is made up of a body and soul; “a soul in possession of body” which “does not constitute two persons by one man
St. Augustine
Taught that man’s longing for happiness on earth comes with the full development of man’s powers, but pointed to a higher form of human perfection beyond this life because of the immortality of the human soul, found i God alone
St. Thomas Aquinas
With his ties to dualism he believed that the mind is the seat of consciousness the body is unreliable has should not be trusted
Rene Descartes
I think, therefore I am
Rene Descartes
Explained that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa, which means a blank state where the man is simply empty at birth, which is why infancy experience of a very important in lasting consequence
John Locke
Explained that at birth the human mind is a tabula rasa, which means a blank state where the man is simply empty at birth, which is why infancy experience of a very important in lasting consequence
John Locke
Tabula Rasá means
Blank state
Knowledge comes from the senses and experience; no self beyond what can we be experienced. The self, according to him, is a bundle of collection of different people; a combination of experience of a person
David Hume
Known for his supreme principle of morality
Kartian Categorical
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a natural law”
Immanuel Kant
A human person has an inner and an outer self, which together form his or her consciousness
Immanuel Kant
Replaced religion with reason
Immanuel Kant
Self, is an inextricable union between mind and body, no experience that is not an embodied experience
Maurice Merleau- Ponty
the mind and the body are so intertwined to can’t even distinguish where the work of the mind ends and where the work of the body begins
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Believes that the working of the mind is not distinct from the action of the body but is the same. The mind is a set of capacities and abilities belonging to the body.
Gilbert Ryle
Adheres to materialism the belief that nothing except matter exists, if it can’t be recognized by the senses then it does not exist
Paul Churchland
