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ACTIVITY 1: SELF IN ONE LINE

Philosophers One sentence definition of self

Socrates The self is composed of the physical realm(body) and the
ideal realm(soul).

Plato The self/soul is composed of three elements: Reason,

Physical appetite, and Spirit of passion

St. Augustine The self is a unity between a sinful body of a man and a
soul which resembles God.

Descartes The soul (conscious self) and body (physical self) are
radically different from one another.

Locke Self is consciousness or awareness.

Hume Self that is experienced by an individual does not exist and

nothing but a kind of fictional self.

Kant Self is the product of reason and regulative principle.

Freud Self is viewed as conscious and unconscious.

Ryle Self is a pattern of behaviors.

Churchland Self is the product of brain activity.

Merleau-Ponty The self is based on experience or phenomena.