ACTIVITY # 2: SELF IN ONE LINE

This section aims to assess your understanding of some of the topics covered in Week 2
through the activity below.

Instructions: Write a one-sentence description of self according to the following

philosophers. Write your answers in a clean sheet of paper. Take a photo and turn it in using Google
Classroom (GED 101 Class) GED 101 group chat via FB.

Philosophers One sentence definition of self

Socrates A true task of philosopher is to know one self
The self has three elements of the soul: Reason,
Plato
Physical Appetite, Spirit or Passion.
It is only possible to understand who a person is
St. Augustine when they have understood how they stand in
relation to God
the self as a thinking entity and the self as a
Descartes
physical body.
The person is a thinking entity, reasonable and
Locke
reflecting on its identity, then there is a self
The self is just a result of the humanistic
Hume imagination and thoughts, that build up a person’s
characteristics.
Kant The people are the ones to create their own self.
There are three layers of the self: Conscious,
Freud
Unconscious, and Preconscious.
The self is best understood as a pattern of behavior,
Ryle the capacity of a person to act and make a move in
certain ways and conditions.
The eliminative materialism or the idea of the self
Churchland is inseparable from the brain and the physiology of
the body; the self is the brain.
The self is a product of the past experiences that he
had, and he builds up his identity through all those
Merleau-Ponty
experiences in the past in which a person made
decisions and such.

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KEVIN NICHOLS R. ABACAN