CAMARINES SUR POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES
Nabua, Camarines Sur
A. SELF-IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Direction: Below is a list of aspects about you that may need improvement. Applying what you
have learned from the module, what do you think you can do in order to improve them?
Target
Spending My Past Time
Making Decisions
Life Goals
Material Possessions
A/Y 2020-2021
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
ACTIVITY SHEET 1
Current State Desired State Improvement Strategies
Playing mobile games To win and accomplish Have a proper decision
and doing assigned my tasks. making and a smart time
tasks. management.
In making decisions, I To save time and to be It's generally a good idea to
make sure that I am in a more independent. avoid making decisions
good state before I when you're angry. You
officially declare it, shouldn't always let your
especially when I am emotions dictate what you
emotional like angry, do. When we are angry, our
mad, or sad. brain has a tendency to think
and act in a negative manner.
In such a situation, it is best
to avoid making any
decisions when youre angry.
As of now I am My professional goals Improve in the area you
studying and happy in life are to find a believe is most important to
while achieving my good job that makes you. It turns out that people
goals. me happy, get a good require a strong motivator
education, find a job to stay focused over time.
that makes enough Doing something you enjoy
money for me to provides much-needed
support my family, and motivation: "However, if you
help people. focus on things you consider
irrelevant, you will likely lose
interest and give up the
whole thing."
I want to have a good I always want provide I need to put a lot of effort
house and a super car.I my family with and and also protect and
was dreaming of it comfort, safety, and maintain my good health
since I was a kid and I security. while achieving it.
hope I can have it Furthermore,I hope to
someday by my own own a car someday,
perseverance and effort. preferably a good one,
because it provides
status as well as the
opportunity for
personal control and
autonomy. Owning a
 car is even more
important in sparsely
populated areas, where
it is the only way to
travel long distances
due to a lack of public
transportation.
Study Habits Right now I have a lot I want to finish my • Make a list. This should
of activities and task to activities and task be a list of everything that
finish and I'm doing it before its due to make has to be done that day.
smartly by the help of my efforts • Estimate the time needed
my notes and a good worthy.Once I finish for each item on your list
time management. one I have to do • Gather all you needed for
another one until I that task
finally finished it,so • Time yourself
that when the time of • Stay on task
submission comes I • Reward yourself
wouldn't have anything
to worry about.
Relationship with Family and I have a bad I want to be a good • Cherish the time you have
Friends relationship with them son and make them with your parents. The time
especially with my proud.I want to let you have with your parents
mom. She's always rude them now how great is short and precious, so
and harsh to me and I their son really is. make the most of it.
cant make her proud. • Talk to them.
She never
congratulates me when
I'm achieving
something.
Spirituality I believe in God I want to be a person People have various theories
through Jesus Christ delightful to him and about how to get to heaven.
our saviour. be with him in his You may believe that all you
paradise. need to do is be a good
person, attend church, and
help others. The Bible, on
the other hand, teaches that
the only way to heaven is to
become a Christian, which
you do by accepting Jesus as
your Savior. First,
familiarize yourself with
Christianity and the message
of Jesus. Then, say a simple
prayer in which you commit
your life to being a disciple
of Jesus Christ.

CAMARINES SUR POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES

 Nabua, Camarines Sur
A/Y 2020-2021

UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

ACTIVITY SHEET 2
B. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
Direction: Fill out the following table with your thoughts and insights about the different
philosophers and their thoughts about self.
Socrates Plato St. Augustine Descartes Locke Kant
1. rational soul ~ Augustine sees ~ "I think, ~ John Locke ~ Agrees with
~ 'the worst - reason & the self as being therefore I am" holds that HUME that
thing that can intellect to open to a personal everything starts
happen to govern affairs relationship with ~ The self = identity is a with
anyone is to live God. He has two cogito (the matter of perception/sensa
but die inside" 2. spirited soul ways of thing that psychological tion of
"every personis emotions conceptualising thinks) + continuity. He impressions.
dualistic" should be kept extenza
the self as considered
at bay or
~ man body + radically oriented (extension of personal ~There is a MIND
soul to God, namely mind/body) identity (or the that regulates
more on
individual = these impressions.
contemplation self-presentation self) to be
imperfect/perma 3. appetitive and self- ~The body is a founded on
nent (body) + soul- base realisation. machine consciousness
perfect & desires (food, ~ Augustine’s attached to the (viz. memory), ~“time, space, etc.
permanent (soul) drink, sleep, own life mind and not on the Are ideas that one
experience led substance of cannot find in the
sexual needs, him to the ~It's the mind either the soul world, but is built
etc.). realisation that in that makes the or the body. in our minds
our innermost man “apparatus
selves, we were
made for God ~ "I am a of the mind”
and that nothing thinking thing...
less than God can A thing that ~The self
fulfil the human doubts, organizes different
soul. understands, impressions that
~Spirit of man' in affirms, denies, one gets in
medieval wills, refuses, relation to his own
philosophy imagines, existence.
perceives."
~ "Si fallor, sum" ~We need active
If I am mistaken, intelligence to
I am synthesize all
knowledge and
~ following view experience.
of Plato but adds
Christianity ~ The self is not
only personality
~ man is of a but also the seat
bifurcated nature of knowledge
~part of man
dwells in the
world (imperfect)
and yearns to be
with the Divine
other part is
capable of
 reaching
immortality
~ body-dies on
earth; soul-lives
eternally in
spiritual bliss
with "God"
~one's true self, ~ Someone ~Augustine's ~ cogito ergo, ~Locke ~The first is the
according to who really sense of self is sum is also the believed that individual's mental
Socrates, is not to loves his relation to keystone of human nature state of inner
be identified with something God, both in his Descartes's allowed people sense. The second
what we own, must love that recognition of concept of self. to be selfish. is the knowledge
with our social thing as a God's love and The essence of This is of a person and
status, our whole and not his response to it existing as a apparent with their state of
reputation, or just some human identity the acting on their
—achieved
even with our aspects of it. is the introduction of conscious
through self-
body. Instead, On that basis, possibility of currency. In a perceptions. Kant
Socrates he concludes presentation, being aware of natural state, describes the inner
famously that a true then self- our selves: all people were self as an
maintained that philosopher realization. Being self- equal and empirical self-
our true self is (lover of ~Augustine conscious in independent, consciousness.
our soul. wisdom) must believed one this way is and everyone The logical
desire wisdom could not integral to had a natural purpose of self
as a whole and achieve inner having a right to defend takes place in the
not be content peace without personal his "life, inner sense.
with having finding God's identity. health, liberty, ~According to
just some love. or Kant,
wisdom. ~ “If you believe possessions." representation
what you like in occurs through our
the Gospel, and senses.
reject what you
don't like, it is
not the Gospel
you believe, but
yourself.”
~ Aristotl, ~Plato argues ~Augustine ~Descartes's ~John Locke ~According to
insisted that the that the soul is spoke of the soul concept of the holds that him, we all have
human being is a really an entity as a “rider” on self revolves personal an inner and an
composite of distinct from the body, making around the idea identity is a outer self which
body and soul the body. clear the split of mind-body matter of together form our
and that the soul Indeed, for between the dualism. For psychological consciousness.
cannot be Plato, the soul material and the Descartes, a continuity. He The inner self is
separated from is the self. As immaterial, with human person considered comprised of our
the body. we can see, the soul is composed of personal psychological state
the body and representing the two parts, identity (or the and our rational
the soul can be “true” person. namely, a self) to be intellect. The outer
separated. ... However, material body founded on self includes our
According to although body and a non- consciousness sense and the
Plato, the soul, and soul were material mind (viz. memory), physical world.
conceived of separate, it was ~ In other and not on the
as self, has not possible to words, for substance of
three parts, conceive of a Descartes, it is either the soul
namely, 1) the soul without its the mind that or the body.
rational soul, body. makes us
2) the spiritual humans. Thus,
soul, and 3) for Descartes,
the appetitive the “mind” is
the “real self”.