Rachel Anne R.
Bodlis September 16, 2021
BSES – I GEC02
Philosophers Biographical Background
1. Aristotle An Ancient Greek
philosopher and scientist
who is still considered one
of the greatest thinkers in
politics, psychology and
ethics. Aristotle founded
his own school, the
Lyceum, in Athens, where
he spent most of the rest
of his life studying,
teaching and writing.
2. Plato Ancient Greek
philosopher Plato was a
student of Socrates and a
teacher of Aristotle. His
writings explored justice,
beauty and equality, and
also contained discussions
in aesthetics, political
philosophy, theology,
cosmology, epistemology
and the philosophy of
language. Plato founded
the Academy in Athens,
one of the first
institutions of higher
learning in the Western
world.
3. St. Augustine Also known as Augustine
of Hippo, an Ancient
Christian theologian who
played a significant role in
the development of early
Western philosophy
Philosophical View of self Related to my life
experience
Aristotle argues that the I agree on what Aristotle
self or the human person says because our selves
is a composite of body are connected to our
and soul and that the two body and soul that we
are inseparable. And as should controlled it.
“form” of the body, the
soul is the very structure
of the human body which
allows humans to perform
activities of life, such as
thinking, willing,
imagining, desiring, and
perceiving.
The rational soul as the I must be true to myself
true self ,therefore, must because Plato’s view of
at all times control the self, we are enable to
spiritual and appetitive
experience or feel the
soul; if a person is able to
harmonize all three souls, emotions that ourselves
a well-balanced can only feel.
personality will be
attained. Therefore, that
is the TRUE SELF
Augustine's sense of self is St. Augustine’s view of
his relation to God, both life, it tells that our self
in his recognition of God's are connected to God that
love and his response to it everything we do, we
—achieved through self- always think that our
presentation, then self-
 marked by the merging of realization. actions might go wrong.
Greek philosophy and
Judeo-Christian religious
traditions.

4. Rene Descartes was extensively educated, Descartes's concept of the Our mind is also
first at a Jesuit college at self revolves around the connected in our self
age 8, then earning a law idea of mind-body because our mind is the
degree at 22, but an dualism. For Descartes, one that enables
influential teacher set him the “mind” is the “real ourselves to move, to
on a course to apply self”. form words etc.
mathematics and logic to
understanding the natural
world. The subjects he
studied, such as rhetoric
and logic and the
“mathematical arts,”
which included music and
astronomy, as well as
metaphysics, natural
philosophy and ethics,
equipped him well for his
future as a philosopher.

5. John Locke English philosopher and
political theorist John
Locke (1632-1704) laid
much of the groundwork
for the Enlightenment and
made central
contributions to the
development of
liberalism. Trained in
medicine, he was a key
advocate of the empirical
approaches of the
Scientific Revolution.
Locke says that the self is
“a thinking intelligent
being, that has reason
and reflection, and can
consider itself as itself,
the same thinking thing,
in different times and
places”
Self is the intelligent being
because our self-think for
what is always right and
self is the only reflection
that

6. David Hume The Scottish philosopher
David Hume (1711-1776)
developed a philosophy of
"mitigated skepticism,"
which remains a viable
One can know only
through the senses and
experiences. Self is
nothing else but a bundle
of impressions. For Hume,
Self can express
impression and ideas that
we can share to everyone
ourselves
alternative to the systems they can all be
of rationalism, categorized into two:
empiricism, and idealism. impressions and ideas.