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THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE SELF
SS031-UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
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In this lesson, the students
must be able to:
1. Understand the importance
of knowing one’s self.
2. Recognize the different
perspectives regarding the
nature of man.
3. Assess the philosophical
perspective of the self by
critiquing the arguments
given.
4. Develop their own answer
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to the question, Who am I?
Philosophy has always sought to answer
life’s difficult questions and has relentlessly
pursued answers to these no matter how
seemingly futile the quest may be.
✔ Born in Scotland, he was a lawyer but is known more for the history
book that he wrote – History of England.
✔ Just like Locke, he is an empiricist and regarded the senses as our
key source of knowledge. He (1738) does believe in the existence of
the mind and what’s inside the mind is divided into two:
impressions and ideas.
““All our knowledge begins with the senses,
proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with
reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
-Immanuel Kant
✔ Known for his Eliminative Materialism- the idea which states that the
mind is unreal, and the brain is real.
✔ The self is the brain. The brain is the essence of the self.
✔ The term mind, moods, emotions, actions, and consciousness are
deeply affected by the state of the brain.
✔ A new conceptual framework should be based on neuroscience.
“We know not through our intellect
but through our experience.”
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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End of Lecture
Take Home Activity
9/9/20