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Lesson 1 - Philosophical Perspectives of the Self Flashcards

1
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The love and pursuit of Wisdom

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Philosophy

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“love”

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“Philein”

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“wisdom”

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“Sophia”

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IS “A WAY OF LOOKING AT
THE WORLD AND GIVING IT MEANING. IT
CAN PROVIDE A HIGH QUALITY METHOD OF
EXAMINING OUR BELIEFS.”

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PHILOSOPHY

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“Know Thy Self”

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SOCRATES

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He agreed that self-knowledge is a prerequisite to a
happy and meaningful life.

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SOCRATES

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“An unexamined life is not worth living”: meaning we
should learn to “reflect“

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SOCRATES

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“One thing only I know, and that is I know
nothing.“: the more that we know, the more
questions we ask.

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SOCRATES

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9
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Age comes with more questions and answers. To
answer unanswered questions, we continue to seek
for answers.
✓ concerned with the problem of the self
✓ concerned about the self and existence
✓ question about the meaning of the self

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SOCRATES

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How knowledge is brought
(teaching by asking questions)

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SOCRATIC METHOD

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Used in understanding the self: BODY and SOUL

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Dualistic approach

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: imperfect and impermanent

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Body

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perfect and permanent

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Soul

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14
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Physical realm and Ideal realm

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Dichotomous Realms

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changeable, transient and imperfect, the body
belongs to this realm

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Physical realm

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unchanging, eternal, and immortal; the soul belongs
to this realm

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Ideal realm

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17
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There is a soul before the body: Once the soul comes into the
material world, he forget everything: By being born in this world
we disconnect from being wise as we were before from the realm
of ideas

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SOCRATES

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18
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We focus on who we are, who we should be and
who will become

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Ideal Realm

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The soul strives for wisdom and perfection and reason is the
souls tool to achieved exalted/happy state of life

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SOCRATES

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20
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What keep us from attaining wisdom?: focuses on material
possessions

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SOCRATES

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21
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“Student of Socrates”

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PLATO

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Founded the Academy

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PLATO

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considered as
prototype of today’s universities

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Academy

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Dichotomy between ideal and material

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PLATO

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(world of
forms/realm of ideas beyond our
consciousness

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ideal

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(the
world we exist right now is just a replica
of the real world)

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material (world)

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Believe in the existence of the SOUL

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PLATO

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the most
divine aspect of the
self

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Soul

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means the soul
is the most intellectual
aspects of the person

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Divine

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✓3 components of
SOUL

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➢Rational soul
➢Spirited soul
➢Appetitive soul

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reason, intellect,
enables us to think deeply, make
wise choices, thinking soul

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RATIONAL soul

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emotion and passion

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Spirited soul

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basic needs,

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Appetitive soul

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“Cogito ergo sum”

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RENE DESCARTES

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“I think, therefore I am.“

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RENE DESCARTES

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Father of modern philosophy.

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RENE DESCARTES

37
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” doubting the
existence of his own physical body“

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HYPERBOLICAN DOUBT

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The existence of the body is NOT the
proof that you exist

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RENE DESCARTES

39
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The mere fact that I can DOUBT is
enough to prove that I can exist

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RENE DESCARTES

40
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Your ability to question things is the proof
that you can exist.

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RENE DESCARTES

41
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“mind-body dualism”

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RENE DESCARTES

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believed that a man consisted of matter and mind

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RENE DESCARTES

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The physical stuff that walks, talks,
and plays the accordion.

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Matter

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The nonphysical substance
(sometimes equated with the soul) that
thinks, doubts, and remembers

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Mind

45
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he nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from
that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing).

Therefore, it is possible for one to exist without
the other.

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RENE DESCARTES

46
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The mind is united with the body to form a
human being.

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RENE DESCARTES

47
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“TABULA RASA”

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JOHN LOCKE

48
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The person is born like a blank slate. Clueless about
the world. With experience we write in our blank
slate/mind, and it got encoded.

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JOHN LOCKE

49
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MEMORY: Our identity is not locked in the mind,
soul or body only. If we don’t have memory, we
cannot have a CONTINOUS Identity.

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JOHN LOCKE

50
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Identity is explained in terms of psychological
connection between life stages due to memory (we
remember our experiences or what happened in the
past).

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JOHN LOCKE

51
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We learn more because of experiences and our
ability to remember these experiences allows us to
remember who we are today.

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JOHN LOCKE

52
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Example : You are so hardworking, because when
you were a child, you were rewarded for being hard
working.

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JOHN LOCKE

53
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“All knowledge is derived from human senses. “

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DAVID HUME

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Influenced by empiricism (they don’t believe on what can’t be
seen or observe. We make use of our senses.)

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DAVID HUME

55
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collection of impressions. The person is a
collection of impressions.

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Bundle theory - David Hume

56
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vivid, products of direct experiences
(perceptions of reality

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Impressions

57
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copies of impressions; imaginations

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Ideas

58
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What you feel when we talk to our
boyfriend is happiness

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Example of impression

59
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Do you have an idea how does it feel to touch a
hot water?

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Example of Idea

60
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“Personal identity is just a result of
imagination”. The mind is simply a container for fleeting
sensations.

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THERE IS NO SELF - David Hume

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There is SELF. We construct self.

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IMMANUEL KANT

62
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The self constructs its own reality, actively
creating a world that is familiar, predictable, and
most significantly, mine.

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IMMANUEL KANT

63
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The self is a product of reason. Through
RATIONALITY, people can understand certain
abstract ideas that have no corresponding
physical object or sensory experience.

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IMMANUEL KANT

64
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Self is not just what gives one his personality
but also the set of knowledge acquisition for all
human persons.

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IMMANUEL KANT

65
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The self constructs its own reality creating a
world that is familiar and predictable.

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IMMANUEL KANT

66
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What is Philosophy of Self and why it is
important?

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  • A philosophy is the pinnacle of one’s life
  • Philosophy adds structure and balance, to implement goals and reach
    one’s dreams
  • Improve critical thinking, argument skills, analysis skills, problem solving
    skills, and communications.
  • Allows you to: justify your opinions , spot a bad argument, explain to
    people and why they are wrong, and you are right, philosophy teaches us
    to think, and it Answers our WHY.

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