BAHANDE, TRISHA MAE G.

Understanding the Self 9:30-10:30 MWF

LONGNO, JENZEL JOHN M. February 1, 2019
BS-ACCOUNTANCY 1

PHILOSOPHER ORIENTATION VIEW OF THE SELF/DESCRIPTION

AND
PHILOSOPHY
Rene Descartes Rationalist  (dualism) the mind was completely
separate from the body

John Locke Empiricist  personal identity (the self)

"depends on consciousness, not
on substance" nor on the soul

David Hume Empiricist, Skepticist  Bundle theory of personal identity

and Naturalist  The self is nothing but a bundle of
experiences linked by the relations
of causation and resemblance

Immanuel Kant Transcendental  Kant's doctrine maintains that

Idealist human experience of things is
similar to the way they appear to
us
 It is most commonly presented as
the idea that time and space are
just human perceptions; they are
not necessarily real

Gilbert Ryle Behaviouralism:

“The self is how you  It is focused on creating
behave” conceptual clarity, not on
developing techniques to
condition and manipulate human
behaviour.

Patricia Churchland “Our self is our  The self turns out to be identifiable
brain” not with a nonphysical soul, but
rather with a set of
representational capacities of the
physical brain.

Maurice Merleau Ponty Embodied  The physical body is an important

Subjectivity part of what makes up the
subjective self.
 The self and perception are
encompassed in a physical body.
Sources:

https://revelpreview.pearson.com/epubs/pearson_chaffee/OPS/xhtml/ch03_sec_09.xhtml

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/296/5566/308

https://study.com/academy/lesson/merleau-ponty-the-self-as-embodied-subjectivity.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115296/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke

https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=lnGGAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel (1967). The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution. MJF Books.
pp. 571, 574. ISBN 978-1-56731-021-4.

Nigel Warburton (2011). "Chapter 19: Rose-tinted reality: Immanuel Kant". A little history of philosophy.
Yale University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-300-15208-1.