THE SELF FROM PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Flashcards

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PHILOSOPHY CAME FROM 2 GREEK WORDS?

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PHILOS

SOPHIA

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WHAT DOES PHILOS MEANS?

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LOVE

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WHAT DOES SOPHIA MEANS?

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WISDOM

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WHERE DOES THE WORD “LOVE OF WISDOM” CAME FROM?

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PHILOSOPHIA

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It is the capacity to comprehend fully and deeply a thing, concept or situation?

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UNDERSTANDING

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It is having or reflecting knowledge, information, or intelligence.

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KNOWING

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According to Merriam-Webster self is an individual’s character or behavior

TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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According to Merriam-Webster self is the unified being essentially integrated to our consciousness or awareness

TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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GIVE THE FIVE CONCEPTS OF SELF

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SELF-KNOWLEDGE
SELF-ACTIVITY
SELF-INDEPENDENT 
SELF-IDENTITY
SELF -IMAGE
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It is a mental picture of an individual and is quite resistant to change through time regarding one’s ability, personality, and role.

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Self-image

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It is the particular characteristics of the self that determines an individual’s uniqueness among others

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Self-identity

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It refers to the inner self. It focuses on internal attributes like our abilities, skills and natural intelligence that are not acquired.

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Self-independent

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It is defined as an independent and self determined action of one person. It is the quality or state of being self-active. A person’s decision to carry out actions which you have thought about yourself and not been told to do by others.

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Self-activity

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It refers to one’s knowledge and understanding of one’s own learning, characters, motivation and capabilities. To have self-knowledge, one must know his/her particular experiences, sensation, attitudes and beliefs.

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Self-knowledge

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It It is how you see yourself and feel about your personality, achievements and values in life. For example, a person who sees himself or herself beautiful and smart

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Self-image

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16
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What is the School of thought in Western Philosophies?

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INDIVIDUALISM

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What is the School of thought in Eastern Philosophies?

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COLLECTIVISM

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He Drive Theory of Self

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Sigmund Freud

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He is The First Moral Philosopher. A classical Greek philosopher and a pioneer in Western moral philosophy.

"”Know thyself.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

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Socrates

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He is a English Empirical Philosopher

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John Locke

21
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He is considered as The Father of Western Philosophy. That Insisted that the human being is a composite of body and soul and that the soul cannot be separated from the body

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

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Aristotle

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He is an empiricist who believes that one can know only what comes from the senses and experiences, Hume argues that the self is nothing like what the his predecessors thought of it. The self is
not only an entity over and beyond the physical body.

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David Hume

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He is the Father of Modern Philosophy. To him the “self” is a thinking person. In his writing “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am).

“I think, therefore I am”

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Rene Descartes

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He is the student of Socrates’ he basically took off from his master and supported the idea that man is the dual nature of body and soul.

He added that there
are three components of the soul, the spirited soul, the rational soul and the appetitive soul.

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Plato

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His s view of the human person reflects the entire spirit of the medieval world when it
comes to man. Following the Ancient view of Plato and infusing it with the new doctrine of the
Christianity, Augustine agreed that man is of bifurcated nature.

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St. Augustine

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The most eminent thirteenth century scholar and stalwart of the medieval philosophy appended
something to this Christian view.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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It is the school of thought that espouses the idea that knowledge can only be possible if it is sensed and experienced. Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing.

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Empiricism

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It is the basic

objects of our experience or sensation. They therefore form the core of our thoughts.

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Impressions

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According to him, thinking of the self as a mere combination of impressions was problematic for Kant. Kant
recognizes the veracity of Hume’s account that everything starts with perception and sensation of
impressions.

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Immanuel Kant

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He is a phenomenologist who asserts that the mind-body bifurcation that has
been going on for the long time is a futile endeavor and an invalid problem.

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Maurice Merleau- Ponty

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It is an example of eastern philosophies that focuses on the concept of “Atman” or “soul or breath” is their main concept when it comes to self.

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Hinduism

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It is an example of eastern philosophies that is in contrast to Hinduism, Buddhism believes in “Anatta” or non-self.

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Buddhism