University of San Jose-Recoletos

Understanding the Self

GE UTS

Instruction: Give your insights on the following quotations by relating each with actual
scenarios. Your answers will consist of 1 paragraph with 4 to 5 sentences. Put your
answers on word file. Convert your word file to pdf file before submitting your output.
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1. “There is only one good ---knowledge and one evil ---ignorance.”

-Socrates

2. “If the world is not perfect, it is not because of God or the ideals, but because the raw
materials were not perfect.”
-Plato

3. “The very perfection of a man is consummated ---when he finds out his

imperfections.”
-St. Augustine

4. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
-Rene Descartes

5. “All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his
life, health, liberty or possessions.”
-John Locke

Rubric:
Content – 10
Organization – 10
Grammar – 5
Total: 25