MERCADO, FACEL KATE R.

January 28, 2019

BSA 1-A Understanding the Self

Believe Reasons Why I

Philosophical View Related Life Effects on my
Philosopher or Not Do Not
of Self Experience Selfhood
(B or N) Believe
I am a non-ABM
student. I used to
have a not so
pleasant study
I am already
habit during high
more focused on
school. However,
learning from the
when I entered
experiences and
college, I started to
keeping those
learn how to adopt
“We construct the self.” IMMANUEL KANT B --- deep inside the
and change
heart in order to
something about
become better
myself resulting to
person and be
a better way of
the best version
learning. I
of myself.
constructed myself
through the help
of the
environment.
I realized that
there is more
going on mentally
than we are
consciously aware
“The self is of, and that
SIGMUND FREUD B ---
multilayered.” sometimes others
can know more
about what we
are thinking and
feeling than we
do.
I believe that
there are doubts.
Whenever I am If there are
alone, I don’t doubts, then it
usually feel lonely. cannot be
this is because I doubted that I
RENE DESCARTES still think that I can think. If I can
“I think therefore I am.” B ---
have myself left think, it
with me. The fact undoubtedly
that I can think necessitates that I
assures me of my am a thinker. If I
own existence. am a thinker,
then without a
doubt I exists.
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BSA 1-A Understanding the Self

Therefore, I
doubt, therefore,
I think, therefore,
I am.
PAUL
“The self is the brain.” B
CHURCHLAND
Just like what they
used to teach us,
we have the spirit This made me
within us aside think that God
from our physical can enter my soul
being. When a and guide me
“The self has an person dies, we from above.
immortal soul.” ST. AUGUSTINE B believe that he is --- Grace is a gift
only gone that is inwardly
physically but with given. When I die,
a soul separable my soul will still
from the body at be eternal prior
death and is to my death.
capable of moral
judgment.
People act the way
they do because of I learned that I
their personality must do all my
traits and outputs with love
attitudes. They for it reflects my
return a lost wallet personality in it.
because they are I’ll be doing every
“The self is the way
GILBERT RYLE B honest; recycle --- task passionately
people behave.”
their trash because so I could achieve
they care about a better result
the environment; and get that
passes a good satisfaction that I
project because have always
they have a good wanted.
heart.
When we are in If I honestly and
the midst of accurately
activities such as examine my
dancing, playing a direct and
sport, or immediate
“The self is embodied MAURICE performing experience of
B ---
subjectivity.” MERLEAU-PONTY musically, most myself, these
likely, we’re mind-body
completely “problems” will
absorbed in the fall away. As
moment. Our mind Merleau-Ponty
and body explains, our
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BSA 1-A Understanding the Self

functioning as one “living body” is a

integrated entity. natural synthesis
For Merleau- of mind and
Ponty, this unified biology, and any
experience of attempts to
ourselves is the divide them into
paradigm or model separate entities
we should use to are artificial and
understand our nonsensical.
nature.
“The self is JOHN LOCKE
consciousness.”
When we are not
I got to put in
experiencing our
I do not believe mind that aside
perceptions—as
because self isn’t from impressions
when we sleep—
just about and ideas that
there is no reason
impressions and work beneath my
to suppose that
ideas. “Self” also brain, I also
our self exists in
includes physical believe that these
any form.
“There is no self.” DAVID HUME N aspects other things cannot be
Similarly, when our
that what is expressed
body dies and all
inside our hearts without my
empirical
and minds. It’s physical body.
sensations cease,
the brain and moreover, I got to
it makes no sense
heart that set up believe more that
to believe that our
our whole being. there is a self in
self continues to
all aspects of life.
exist in some form.
“The self is an immortal
PLATO
soul”
“An examined life is not
SOCRATES
worth living.”
“The soul is the essence
ARISTOTLE
of the self.”