THE SELF FROM PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
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PHILOSOPHY CAME FROM 2 GREEK WORDS?
PHILOS
SOPHIA
WHAT DOES PHILOS MEANS?
LOVE
WHAT DOES SOPHIA MEANS?
WISDOM
WHERE DOES THE WORD “LOVE OF WISDOM” CAME FROM?
PHILOSOPHIA
It is the capacity to comprehend fully and deeply a thing, concept or situation?
UNDERSTANDING
It is having or reflecting knowledge, information, or intelligence.
KNOWING
According to Merriam-Webster self is an individual’s character or behavior
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
According to Merriam-Webster self is the unified being essentially integrated to our consciousness or awareness
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
GIVE THE FIVE CONCEPTS OF SELF
SELF-KNOWLEDGE SELF-ACTIVITY SELF-INDEPENDENT SELF-IDENTITY SELF -IMAGE
It is a mental picture of an individual and is quite resistant to change through time regarding one’s ability, personality, and role.
Self-image
It is the particular characteristics of the self that determines an individual’s uniqueness among others
Self-identity
It refers to the inner self. It focuses on internal attributes like our abilities, skills and natural intelligence that are not acquired.
Self-independent
It is defined as an independent and self determined action of one person. It is the quality or state of being self-active. A person’s decision to carry out actions which you have thought about yourself and not been told to do by others.
Self-activity
It refers to one’s knowledge and understanding of one’s own learning, characters, motivation and capabilities. To have self-knowledge, one must know his/her particular experiences, sensation, attitudes and beliefs.
Self-knowledge
It It is how you see yourself and feel about your personality, achievements and values in life. For example, a person who sees himself or herself beautiful and smart
Self-image
What is the School of thought in Western Philosophies?
INDIVIDUALISM
What is the School of thought in Eastern Philosophies?
COLLECTIVISM
He Drive Theory of Self
Sigmund Freud
He is The First Moral Philosopher. A classical Greek philosopher and a pioneer in Western moral philosophy.
"”Know thyself.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
He is a English Empirical Philosopher
John Locke
He is considered as The Father of Western Philosophy. That Insisted that the human being is a composite of body and soul and that the soul cannot be separated from the body
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
Aristotle
He is an empiricist who believes that one can know only what comes from the senses and experiences, Hume argues that the self is nothing like what the his predecessors thought of it. The self is
not only an entity over and beyond the physical body.
David Hume
He is the Father of Modern Philosophy. To him the “self” is a thinking person. In his writing “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am).
“I think, therefore I am”
Rene Descartes
He is the student of Socrates’ he basically took off from his master and supported the idea that man is the dual nature of body and soul.
He added that there
are three components of the soul, the spirited soul, the rational soul and the appetitive soul.
Plato
