DARYL LALANGAN GAVINO - UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

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1ST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENT

ALDERSGATE COLLEGE UNDERSTANDING THE SELF COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES AND

EDUCATION EROLLE TOLENTINO CARIÑO 

APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT 

Directions: In your own words, state what “self” is for each of the following philosophers. After doing so,
explain how your  concept of “self” is compatible with how they conceived of the “self’. 
Socrates   The first philosopher ever involved in a rigorous self-questioning
process, like me, I reflect all the time whenever I think I'm doing something or
creating something.
 Plato -  for him Every man is composed of body and soul  for him and the body,
all people have an incomplete, impermanent component, while retaining that
there is also a complete and lasting soul.’’ With my point of view and perspective
in life I believe that there is a soul which our body has been united with and that
soul is within us.
 Augustine - said the body is bound to die on earth and the soul is expected to live
eternally in communion with God in a realm of spiritual bliss. This only means that
there is afterlife and the body will stay on earth
  Descartes according to him The body is nothing else but a mind-attached
machine. It's the human person that has it, but it's not what makes a man. That is,
if at all, the mind. This only means that mind is powerful enough to command and
govern our body and the one that controls our own body systems.
  Hume according to him Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing.
which means learning happens when experiencing within the environment he
has.
  Kant according to him The self is not just what gives one his personality; it is also
the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human persons.
This only literally means that one factor that affect in building oneself, is the
relationship with other people around us, just like hume, environment is one of
the factor in building oneself
  Ryle - According to him “Self” is not an entity one can locate and analyze but
simply the convenient name that people use to refer to all the behaviors that
people make.
this simply means that what you have done will refer to you, “your work is your
own signature”.
Merleau-Ponty according to him, the living body, his thoughts, emotions, and
experiences are all one. The whole totality of a person makes him, it simply
means that all of our body components make us.

B. For Reflections 
1. Reflect on Socrates’ statement “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Have you ever spent time
examining your life?  Is it really worth your time? Why or why not? 
Yes, I spent some time examining my own life sometimes and the most
important part of my life is examining my choices and beliefs using rationality
and determining if they are valid. If I choose not to lead an unexamined life, I
would find that my life lacks value and I would be unhappy.
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EDUCATION EROLLE TOLENTINO CARIÑO 

2. A life lived in accordance with reason is a good and happy one. In contrast, a life dominated by the
sense and lower nature of a human person is an unhappy, disordered life. So far, how have I spent
my life? Have I lived a life of virtue? Have I abided by the Golden Mean of Aristotle? 

I spent my life being a good son, being a good father to my child and other
persons who supported me to commit my goals and to persons that can
accept my life forever. And live with fear to God.

C. For Research 
Research on emotional learning. Does this mean that emotions have a role to play learning? Does this
prove that emotions do not make us less thinking human beings? 

I can say that sometimes our emotion is all have a good and bad impact to
ourselves. As human being we feel sad and sometimes we feel happy, we feel
disappointment and but then we can also feel happiness and hope. We feel
nervous and sometimes we feel excitement. There’s a lot of role of our emotions
that we experienced and applied into our lives. But then, those emotions are very
important to us as human beings because without it, we cannot feel pain, we
can’t learn how to love, forgive, trust, hope and more. So, for me emotions are
one of my important treasures in my life that no one can steal or buy it because
without that emotions, I can’t live and I can’t feel pain that helps me to to learn
from each things or problems that will come to my life and most of all that
emotions motivates me to become a strong person. THAT’S ALL SIR. SALAMAT
PO. 😊

Sorry sir medyo senti yung sagot ko, may pinag huhugutan lang po hehe Salamat
po ulet 😊

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ALDERSGATE COLLEGE UNDERSTANDING THE SELF COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES AND
EDUCATION EROLLE TOLENTINO CARIÑO 

Lesson 2: 
The Self, Society, and Culture 

LESSON OBJECTIVES 
At the end of this lesson, you should be able: 
1. Explain the relationship between and among the self, society and culture. 
2. Describe and discuss the different ways by which the society and culture shape the self 
3. Compare and contrast how the self can be influenced by the different institutions
in the society; and 4. Examine one’s self against the different views of the self that
were discussed in the class 

PRE-ACTIVITY 
My Self through the Years 
Directions: List down your salient characteristics that you remember when you were in elementary, high
school and college.
My Elementary Self  My High School Self  My College Self
  Have positivity  More active in  Can accept
within me. school activities. Responsibility. 
 I am dependent.  Can accept  More active in
 I am eager on responsibility. school and
finishing my  Self-Motivated. community
studies.  Easily to be with. activities.
 More aggressive  Develop maturity.  Have positivity
and playful.  Dependent within me.
 Enjoy repetition. Practice self-  Matured enough.
 Discouraged management.  Self-Motivated.
easily.  Have positivity  Master Self-
 Behavior affected within me. Management.
by puberty.  Have self-  Still dependent.
 Irresponsible.I am awareness.  Easily to be with.
easily to be with.  I know how to  Have Self-
socialize. Awareness.
 Have self-  I know how to
confidence socialize.
 Have concrete  Have self-
goal in life. confidence.
 Have concrete goal
in life.

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ALDERSGATE COLLEGE UNDERSTANDING THE SELF COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES AND
EDUCATION EROLLE TOLENTINO CARIÑO 
ANALYSIS 
Directions: After having examined your “self’ in its different stages, fill out the table below. 

SIMILARITIES IN ALL DIFFERENCES IN MY “SELF”  POSSIBLE REASONS 

STAGES  OF MY “SELF” ACROSS THE THREE STAGES  FOR  THE CHANGES
OF MY LIFE AND  
DIFFERENCES IN ME
I am a shy type of I see the beauty and Because I don’t
person. sincerely of human want to be like
Sometimes I cannot characteristics. that forever.
hold my emotion and it I can already feel This day I realize
will explode in what is right and that it is not good
anytime. wrong. And I realize that
Careless with my I Feel that i can’t buy nit is not good
moneys my needs in case of and I don’t like to
I was being good all emergency be like that
the time, Im being I've grown forever
studious and develop physically and time, pain,
self conscious all the mentally , as all we undergo puberty
time, which I manifest know we undergo and
when Im still changes and most specially
young, I have also evolution that’s maturity.
develop initiative to do why in every stages
task at the moment of of my life I change by
time. the way in looking
things out and
figuring how life was.