UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

1st Semester AY: ’22- ’23 TRANSCRIBED BY: JULIENNE HAU

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WHY THE URGENCY?  Parent’s Name
(surname)
 Birth mark
Philippine Youth Western Youth
 Other characteristics
 Remain in  Encounter
our culture people with SELF
different  “Oneself”, “I”, “Me”
nationalities  Not identical to identity
from o Personal identity indicates or
different points to the self
countries
 Much more than identity
carrying their
own unique  “Higit pa sa pagkakakilala”
culture and  Identity is the covering
personality clothing of the self.
 Family and  Family and
CONTRAST BETWEEN SELF AND
religion- religion are
IDENTITY
oriented not much
FIRST
culture influential
 Identity – Latin “Idem” – “the
 The task of forming oneself
same”
becomes even more difficult if
 Identity can be stolen, it can be
one does not have strong roots
forged
to hold oneself down when one
 Person has got to know
faces the storm of the world.
something about you or your
INTERNET references prior to meeting.
 Persuaded the youth nowadays  Two moments of identity:
 very influential in the formation o The claim to be someone
of individual o The judgement that you are
indeed that someone
IN WHAT WAY MIGHT IDENTITY AND
SELF BE MUTUALLY IMPLICATED IN AN  According to Saint Augustine:
ISSUE THAT BECOMES AN OVERRIDING o “If I err, then I am”
CONCERN OF STUDENTS? WHEN  “The mere fact of doubting is a
IDENTITY IDENTIFIED WITH SELF? proof he or she exist”
PERSONAL IDENTITY o The stronger the doubter
 “Who are you?” doubts, the surer the doubter
o “Name” is that he or she exist.
 Naturally to add other  The self-subsist, it exists by
information to support itself.
details
  Identity depends on other
people’s recognition.
 If the self is identified with
identity, it becomes
vulnerable to doubt.
SECOND
 Simoun accusing university
students of confusion about their
national identity because of their
desire to learn Spanish.
o Are they Spaniards or native
Filipinos?
 Evolution of Educational System
o Filipino preference of
academic rather than agrarian
and technical
 Filipino families would rather see
their children as professionals
 Filipino social history
o Desire for a change not only
of economic status but social
identity.
 Search for identity in groups
in adolescents
 Identity is a way of fitting at
the larger society.
 Identity is what makes someone
part of a group.
o Determined by the culture of
certain society.
 When culture is influx, the
confusion may enter about
identity.
 Internet.
THIRD
 Identity makes sense before
someone who ask who we are
 The self will grow, it will change,
while remaining himself or
herself.
o Reality is not always easy to
put into words.
PERSONALITY AND SELF
 Personality is usually cited as
what distinguishes an individual
from other people within our
surroundings.
o Component that is genetic
temperament
o Other components that may
be traced to the environment.
 Changeable
o Due to social, environmental,
personal reasons
 The personality has the sense of
an effect (product – self) rather
than an agent (doer)
IDENTITY, PERSONALITY, AND SELF
 We change our identity
depending on whom I am with,
and our identity determines our
personality
 Filipinos are experts of multiple
identities and multiple
personalities.
 How is it possible?
o “Kalooban”
 It is what the person really is
 It is there where you find
what the person really
believes and loves
 It is the person’s self, one’s
real self.
 WHO AM I?
 Affirming things about
ourselves to ourselves affirm
the fact that we are not the
same as others.
 The things that I affirmed to
my self are mine and not
theirs
 One’s identity is further
revealed when the self
interacts with others who are
not the self.
 More of a person is revealed
when one relates with others
who are similar to one’s self,
but not a part of that self.
 Selfhood of a person emerges
further when one
distinguishes oneself from
other individuals.
 Every person is the only one
in this world who is himself or
herself.
 We are all persons but we live
out our own lives as a person.