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the unexamined life is not worth living.”
SOCRATES
Founder of The Academy
“Good is above God”
P l a t o
rational and the motivation is for goodness
a n d t r u t h
The reason
non-rational and is the will or drive
towards action; initially neutral but can be influenced into t w o d i r e c t i o n s
The spirited
irrational and lean towards the desire for
pleasure of the body
The appetites
what people in the cave see are
only shadows of reality which they believe are real things and represent knowledge; only the Forms are real
Allegory of the cave
“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito Ergo Sum)
Father of modern philosophy
R e n e D e s c a r t e s
Experience is that upon which ‘all our knowledge is
founded; and from that is ultimately derives itself’
J o h n L o c k e
blank slate
Tabula r a s a
where actions that are praiseworthy are
c a l l e d v i r t u e s
L a w of opinion
where right actions are enforced by people in
authority
Civil law
Three laws according to Locke:
L a w of opinion
Civil law
Divine law
set by God on the actions of man
Divine law
The mind receives materials from the senses and calls it perceptions
D a v i d H u m e
Two types of perceptions:
Impression
I d e a s
immediate sensations of external reality
Impression
recollections of these impressions
Impression and ideas = make up the content of the
h u m a n mind
I d e a s
A self must exist or there could be no memory or
knowledge
I m m a n u e l
K a n t
Repressed thoughts and memories have enough psychic energy to impose their control on the person’s c o n s c i o u s n e s s
Sigmund
Freud
Made use of free association and dream analysis
Sigmund
Freud
Structures of t h e mind:
Id
Ego
Superego
pleasure principle; demands immediate satisfaction
Id
reality principle; mediates between the id and
s u p e r e g o
Ego
morality principle; rewards & punishment
Superego
English philosopher
Denied the concept of an internal, nophysical self e
G i l b e r t
R y le
Two types of knowledge:
Knowing-that
Knowing-how
knowing facts/information
Knowing-that
using facts in the performance of some
skill or technical abilities
Knowing-how
Unique and has its own identity
Separate
Has its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition
Self-contained & independent
Expected t o persist f o r quite some t i m e
C o n s i s t e n t
Like a chief command post where all processes,
emotions, and thoughts converge
Unitary
Each person sorts out information, feelings,
emotions, and thought processes within the self
P r i v a t e
a French anthropologist who stated
that every self has two (2) faces:
Moi
Personne