Philosophers

Question 1

This employs the inquisitive mind to discover the ultimate causes, reasons, and principles of everything. It goes beyond scientific investigation by exploring all areas of knowledge such as religion, psychology, politics, physics and even medicine.

Answer 1

Philosophy

Question 2

__________ said that “An unexamined life is not worth living”

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

What method that one has to self-examine and discuss about the self as this is a duty to achieve what is the greatest good to a life?

Answer 3

Socratic Method

Question 4

Self is _________________ to the soul

Answer 4

synonymous

Question 5

A realm where the soul is belong. This is unchanging, eternal, and immortal

Answer 5

Ideal realm

Question 6

A realm that is changeable, transient, and imperfect. This is where our body belongs

Answer 6

Physical realms

Question 7

What is the key to virtuous life?

Answer 7

Constant self-examination

Question 8

Who made this concept “The ideal self, the perfect self”?

Answer 8

Plato

Question 9

Plato said that “The self is _______ soul”

Answer 9

Immortal

Question 10

Plato conceives of the soul as having three parts. What are these parts?

Answer 10

Rational part
Spirited part
Appetitive part

Question 11

The part that loves honor and victory

Answer 11

Spirited

Question 12

The part that loves
truth, which should rule over the other
parts of the soul through the use of
reason),

Answer 12

Rational

Question 13

A part which desires food, desires, and sex

Answer 13

Appetitive

Question 14

This happiness can only be achieved by people who consistently make sure that their Reason is in control of their Spirits and Appetites.

Answer 14

Genuine Happiness

Question 15

Love is way of knowing and realizing the truth. It is a process of seeking ______________________. The greater the love, the more intellectual component it will contain.

Answer 15

higher stages of being

Question 16

What are the three part of soul idea?

Answer 16

Reason, Physical Appetite, and Spirit/Passion

Question 17

“The soul is the essence of the self”

Answer 17

Aristotle

Question 18

He suggest that the rational nature of the self, which can be attained in self-actualization, is to lead a good, flourishing and fulfilling life.

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

For Aristotle, anything with life has a _____

Answer 19

soul

Question 20

The three kinds of soul according to Aristotle

Answer 20

Vegetative
Sentient
Rational

Question 21

The rational soul is characterized by moral virtues such as _______ and __________

Answer 21

justice and courage

Question 22

A kind of soul where the physical body can grow

Answer 22

Vegetative

Question 23

“The measure of love is to love without measure”

Answer 23

St. Augustine of Hippo

Question 24

________ leading to self-realization

Answer 24

Self-presentation

Question 25

What are the two realms of thoughts?

Answer 25

- God as the source of all reality and truth. - The sinfulness of man

Question 26

For him, the truth refers to the truth of knowing God. God is transcendent (beyond physical human experience) and the self seeks to be united with God through faith and reason.

Answer 26

St. Augustine of Hippo

Question 27

Why does self-knowledge matter?

Answer 27

It offers us a route to greater happiness and fulfillment.

Question 28

"I think therefore I am"

Answer 28

Rene Descrates

Question 28

The ___________ about the self – of being self-conscious – is in itself proof that there is a self.

Answer 28

act of thinking

Question 28

____________ (I think therefore I am) is the keystone of Descrates' beliefs.

Answer 28

Cogito Ergo Sum

Question 29

The self as ____________ is nonmaterial, immortal, conscious being, independent of the physical laws of the universe.

Answer 29

Thinking entity

Question 30

The self as _______________ is material, mortal, fully governed by the laws of nature

Answer 30

Physical Body

Question 31

TRUE OR FALSE According to Descrates, the soul and the body cannot function without the other.

Answer 31

False The soul and the body CAN function without the other.

Question 32

Tabula Rasa means _____________

Answer 32

At birth, the mind is a blank slate without innate ideas, and it is experience that provides us knowledge provided by sensory [hear, smell, taste, see, feel] experiences and reflections)

Question 33

John Locke said that "the self is ______________"

Answer 33

consciousness

Question 33

The two forms on processing knowledge according to John Locke are?

Answer 33

Sensation and Reflection

Question 34

This involves the mind's ability to consider and analyze its own thoughts and experiences.

Answer 34

Reflection

Question 35

"there is no self"

Answer 35

David Hume

Question 36

The mind receives materials from the senses and calls it ________________

Answer 36

perceptions

Question 37

Two types of Perceptions?

Answer 37

Impressions and Ideas

Question 38

This is the basic sensations such as hate, love, joy, grief, pain, cold and heat

Answer 38

Impressions

Question 39

He combined the idea of Rationalism (knowledge through reasoning) and Empiricism (knowledge through senses)

Answer 39

Immanuel Kant

Question 40

A self must exist: if not, there could be ______________________

Answer 40

no memory or knowledge

Question 41

"We construct our self"

Answer 41

Immanuel Kant

Question 42

This pertains to the experience of the self and its unity with objects

Answer 42

Transcendental Self

Question 43

Knowledge through reason is?

Answer 43

Rationalism

Question 44

Knowledge through senses is?

Answer 44

Empiricism

Question 45

"the self is the way people behave"

Answer 45

Gilbert Ryle

Question 46

"I act therefore I am" means?

Answer 46

the self is the same as bodily behavior.

Question 47

What are the two types of knowledge according to Ryle?

Answer 47

Knowing That Knowing How

Question 48

The couple philosophers who believed that the self is inseparable from the brain and the body.

Answer 48

Patricia and Paul Churchland

Question 49

If there is no brain, there is ____________

Answer 49

no self

Question 50

__________________ states that the self is real, that it is a tool that helps the person tune-in to the realities of the brain and the extant reality.

Answer 50

Neurophilosophy

Question 51

He argues that all knowledge about the self is based on the ‘phenomena’ of experience.

Answer 51

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Question 52

According to Merleau-Ponty, the mind and the body are _____________

Answer 52

unified

Question 53

Perception is not merely a consequence of sensory experience, rather, it is a ____________________________

Answer 53

conscious experience.