PHILOSOPHICAL

VIEW OF SELF
 SOCRATES
• Know Yourself
• “ An unexamined life not worth living”
• man must stand and live according to his nature.
Man has to look at himself. To find what? By what
means?
• A bad man is not virtuous through ignorance; the
man who does not follow the good fails to do so
because he does not recognize it.
• The core Socratic ethics is the concept of virtue and
knowledge.
 PLATO
• The Ideal Self, the Perfect Self
• man was omniscient
• Plato's identification of these three distinct elements
of a person's inner life is unique, and can be
validated by directly turning inward to one's own
experience of the self.
• Appetite
• Spirited
• mind
 ST. AUGUSTINE
• Love and justice as the foundation of Individual Self
• He agreed that man is a bifurcated nature.
• Body
• Soul
The goal of every human person is to attain communion
and bliss with the Devine
 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
• Adapted some ideas from Aristotle
• Mas is composed of two parts: matter and form
• Matter “hyle” common stuff that makes up everything in the
universe
• Form “morphe” essence of a substance or thing
• “the things we love tell us who we are”
 RENE DESCARTES
• I Think therefore I am
• Self is a combination of two distinct entities: the cognito, the
thing that thinks which is the mind and the extenza or
extension of the mind, which is the body.
 DAVID HUME

• The Self is a bundle of Theory of Mind

• It begins with impression
• The Self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions
 IMMANUEL KANT
• Respect for Self
• All men are gifted with the same rights and should be
treated equal.
• Self is not just what gives one his personality, it is the seat of
knowledge acquisition for all human person.
 JOHN LOCKE

• Personal Identity
• A matter of psychological continuity
• Consciousness
• It is the concept about oneself that evolves over
the course of an individual’s life
 GILBERT RYLE

• Self is simply the convenient name that people

use to refer to all the behaviors that people
make.
 MERLEAU-PONTY

• The living body, his thoughts, emotions and

experiences are all one
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