Activity 3

Summary of the Philosophy about SELF and Reflection

Philosopher What it says about SELF Reflection

In addition to our physical bodies,

each person possesses an immortal All of our senses are having significant
1. Socrates
soul that survives beyond the death of connection to our body and into a realm
the body

The essence of the self - the soul -as

a unified, indissoluble, immortal entity This makes us (humans) different to
2. Plato that remains the same over time, he animals. We think, we reason, and
also recognizes the inherent decide.
difficulties with this view.

He enthusiastically adopted Plato's

vision of a bifurcated universe in
which "there are two realms, an
Yes, we do have soul and this would
intelligible realm where truth itself
3. St. Augustine our life when we're with god, not in
dwells, and this sensible world which
heaven but here on Earth.
we perceive by sight and touch," but
then adopted this metaphysics to
Christian beliefs.

Matter or hyle refers to the common

stuff that makes up everything in the
Our body is naturally related from
universe. Man's body is part of this
4. Thomas Aquinas cosmos but there is something that
matter. Form or morphe refers to the
makes us (humans) special - the soul.
essence of a substance or thing. It is
what makes it what it is.

We need to use our own thinking

abilities to investigate, analyze, I do not let myself ruled by anyone in
5. Rene Descartes experiment, and develop our own belief, tradition and something I
well-reasoned conclusions, supported supposed to believe.
with compelling proof.

We are furnished with the ideas

through experience and we My experiences are helping me to know
6. John Locke form our knowledge via experience more about myself. People and
too. Experience is that upon which ‘all surroundings can truly affect my mood.
our knowledge is founded.
 Premise of understanding the
‘impression’ and ‘identity’ we have of
ourselves before we dwell into the
questions of ‘the self. As human
beings we tend to think of ourselves I keep on asking myself different
7. David Hume as selves—who are stable entities questions everyday and it leads me to a
that exist over time but no matter how path of finding the truth.
closely we examine our own
experiences, we never observe
anything beyond a series of transient
feelings, sensations, and impressions.

It's our self that makes experiencing

an intelligible world possible because
it's the self that is responsible for Probably, It's been always used in
8.Immanuel Kant
synthesizing the discreet data of problem solving and in our everyday life
sense experience into a meaningful
whole.

Two levels of human functioning- the

conscious and the unconscious -differ I'm aware that I am conscious but I am
9. Sigmund Freud
radically both in their content and in not aware that I am also unconscious.
the rules and logic that govern them.

He thought of his approach as a

logical behaviorism, focused on
creating conceptual clarity, not on
developing techniques to condition
and manipulate human behavior. It is Sometimes, I just ignore what are
10. Gilbert Ryle high time that this destructive myth of seemingly unimportant in my living. I'm
dualism is debunked once after all, just noticing what should be noticed.
and replaced with a clearer
conceptual and linguistic
understanding of the true nature of
the self.
Being Negative thinker or Positive
thinker really affects the body. When
11. Paul It simply emotions and relations are
I'm too negative to myself, my body feel
Churchland cognitive to physical body of human
exhausted and more often resulted to
nervous breakdown.

There's not a duality of substance but If we think deeper, our body is

12. Maurice
only the dialectic of living being in its obviously connected to our mind. We
Merleau Ponty
biological milieu just have different kind of thinking.