PHILOSOPHER Summary on the Concept of “Self”
Socrates (Greek)
Plato (Greek)
St. Augustine (Numidia)
Rene Descartes (French)
John Locke (English)
David Hume (Scott)
Immanuel Kant (German)
Sigmund Freud (Prussian)
Gilbert Ryle (British)
Paul Churchland (Canadian)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French)
the capacity to detect that the sensations,
thoughts, mental states, and attitudes as one's
own.
the true self of human beings is the reason or the
intellect that constitutes their soul and that is
separable from their body.
self is his relation to God, both in his recognition of
God's love and his response to it—achieved
through self-presentation, then self-realization
believed this rather ethereal mind holds the seat
of consciousness.
considered personal identity or the self to be
founded on consciousness, and not on the
substance of either the soul or the body.
as a result of our natural habit of attributing
unified existence to any collection of associated
parts.
we all have an inner and an outer self which
together form our consciousness. The inner self is
comprised of our psychological state and our
rational intellect. The outer self includes our sense
and the physical world
self was multitiered, divided among the conscious,
preconscious, and unconscious
self comes from behavior
his means that the physical brain, and not the
mind, exists. Adding to this, the physical brain is
where we get our sense of self.
stands in contradiction to rationalism and
empiricism