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THE SELF Flashcards

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When our parents call our names, we were taught to respond to them because:

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  1. Our NAMES represent WHO WE ARE.
  2. Our NAMES designate us in the world.
  3. Our NAMES signify us.
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It is an important study in Psychology. Self is either the COGNITIVE (intellectual activity) or the AFFECTIVE (feelings) representation.

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Self

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Aspects of Self

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SELF-AWARENESS
SELF-ESTEEM
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
SELF-PERCEPTION

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PERSPECTIVES ABOUT SELF

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PHILOSOPHY
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
WESTERN/ EASTEST THOUGHT

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  • He is known for his Socratic method (asking questions to test an idea)
  • He questioned views and beliefs (Athenian) which offended the leaders
  • He was accused of impiety or lack of reverence for the gods and for corrupting the minds of the youth
  • He was sentenced to death (poison)
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SOCRATES

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Man are composed of:

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  1. BODY
  2. SOUL
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“I Know That I Don’t Know”

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SOCRATES

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  • Student of Socrates
  • Supported Socrates’ idea of the dualistic nature of man (Soul and body):
  • Soul being the most divine aspect
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PLATO

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3 components of soul

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Rationalistic
Spirited
Appetitive

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10
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reason and intellect

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Rationalistic

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emotions

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Spirited

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desires like eating, drinking, sleeping, coitus

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Appetitive

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“Balance Between Mind and Body”

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PLATO

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  • Influenced by Plato’s ideas
  • Latin Father and Christian Thinker
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ST. AUGUSTINE

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“All Knowledge Leads to God.”

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ST. AUGUSTINE

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  • French Philosopher, and Mathematician, Father of Modern Philosophy
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RENE DESCARTES

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is the principal tool of disciplined inquiry.

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Doubt

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  • Conscious thinking substance that is unaffected by time
  • known only to itself
  • Not made up of parts
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Soul

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  • Material, changes through time
  • Can be doubted, can be corrected
  • Made up of physical quantifiable parts
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Body

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“I Think, Therefore, I Am.”

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RENE DESCARTES

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  • Philosopher and Physician
  • One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers
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JOHN LOCKE

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“Human mind at birth is a tabula rasa which means that knowledge is derived from experience.”

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JOHN LOCKE

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  • Scottish Philosopher, Economist and Historian
  • Fierce Opponent of Descartes’ Rationalism; Proponent of Empiricism
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DAVID HUME

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most strong, with most force, directly experienced

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Impressions

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less forcible, copy and reproduce data formulated based upon the previously perceived perceptions

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Ideas

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”All Knowledge is Derived from Human Senses.”

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DAVID HUME

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  • German Philosopher
  • Contributed in Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics
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IMMANUEL KANT

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is the mental process of assimilating an idea to the body of ideas he possesses

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Apperception

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Components of Self:

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Inner Self
Outer Self

30
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aware of alterations; intellect and psychological state, interprets and expresses

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Inner Self

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senses and the physical world, gathers information

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Outer Self

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“Reason is the final authority of morality. Morality is achieved only when there is absence of war because of the result of enlightenment.”

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Immanuel Kant

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  • Philosopher, Physiologist and Psychologist
  • Father of Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud

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is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious.

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Psyche

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awareness of present perceptions, feelings, thoughts, memories, and fantasies at any particular moment

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Conscious

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related to the data that can readily be brought to consciousness

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Pre-conscious or Subconscious

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refers to the data retained but not available to the individual’s conscious awareness or scrutiny

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Unconscious

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provoking drives that is socially or ethically unacceptable to the individual

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source of anxiety

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pleasure principle, biological component

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Id

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reality principle, psychological component, mediator between the demands of Id and Superego, should be in firm or flexible control

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Ego

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moral principle, social component

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Superego

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makes you guilty when the ego gives in to the demands of the Id

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Conscience

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imaginary picture of how you ought to be. It is rewarded by the Superego when one conforms with the standards imposed by society.

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Ideal self

44
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“Wish Fulfillment is the Road to the Unconscious.”

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Sigmund Freud

45
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  • British Philosopher and Professor
  • He opposed Rene Descartes that the self is a thinking thing. He maintained that the mind is not separate from the body.
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Gilbert Ryle

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“I Act, Therefore, I Am.”

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GILBERT RYLE

47
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Neuroscientist who introduced Eliminative Materialism

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Paul Churchland

47
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“The physical brain and not the imaginary mind gives us our sense of self.”

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Paul Churchland

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  • Philosopher and Author
  • He did not believe in mind-body dualism
  • He regarded self as embodied subjectivity.
  • Mind and body are intrinsically connected.
  • Mind is part of the body and the body is part of the mind.
  • The body acts what the mind processes.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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“Physical body is an important part of the self.”

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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