Lesson 1 Flashcards
It originated from the Greek word “Philosophia” meaning the love of wisdom.
Philosophy
What is self?
A. An individual’s character or behavior.
B. The union of elements.
C. Unified being essentially integrated to our consciousness.
One’s own knowledge and understanding of one’s own learning, characters, motivation, and capabilities.
Self-knowledge
An independent and self determined action of one person. It is the quality or state of being self-active.
Self-activity
It refers to the inner self. It focuses on the internal attributes like our abilities, skills, and natural intelligence that are not acquired.
Self-independent
The particular characteristics of the self that determines individual’s uniqueness among others. It is the recognition of one’s potentials and qualities as an individual.
Self-identity
A mental picture of an individual and is quite resistant to change through time regarding one’s ability, personality, and role. It is how you see yourself.
Self-image
The First Moral Philosopher
“Know thyself”
To understand thyself is to know thyself
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
The Father of Western Philosophy
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
Insisted that the human being is a composite of body and soul and that the soul cannot be separated from the body.
Aristotle
“I think, therefore I am (Cogito, ergo sum)”
The self is a thinking person; the mind is a substance within the brain capable of thinking.
The notion of self which is made of consciousness that forms our thinking and guides our behavior. It is the self that perceived the world.
Rene Descartes
Scottish Empiricist
“Humans are bundles of impression and ideas”
The mind is simply a bonded of perceptions and experiences linked by the relations of causations and resemblance.
The self is nothing more than the mental perceptions.
David Hume
English Empirical Philosopher
“The self is a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places”
The self can be understood by examining one’s mind.
He suggests that the self is a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection.
John Locke
“The ego is not a master in its own house”
Sigmund Freud
