Unit 1. Activity 2.

ASSESSMENT: MEANING OF SELF

ASSESSMENT: In your own words, state what is the meaning of SELF

for each of the following Philosophers. After doing so, place a check
mark if your concept of Self is compatible with how they conceived of
the self:

Mark with a / if
your idea of the
Meaning of Self in your own
Philosophers SELF is
words
compatible with
the Philosopher’s
Socrates, an apostle of freedom of
decision and self-reflection stated that
every person is dualistic, which implies

Socrates
that our body and soul are the two
primary components of who we are as
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individuals. In addition, he claimed that
while our soul is perfect and eternal, our
body is flawed and transient.
In Plato's perspective, the idea of
Socrates that a person has a dual

Plato
nature—a body and a soul — is valid in
which he later on supported this same
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idea by his master, however he added
the three parts of the soul to support the
claims namely the Rational Soul,
Spirited Soul, and the Appetitive Soul.

The first is the Rational Soul, which is

also known as the mind (nous) or
cognitive awareness. This is the part of
us that thinks and weighs options
logically to choose what is best for a
particular human being.

The part of us known as the "Spirited

Soul" or "Hot-Blooded Part" is in charge
of each of our distinct emotions. This
part gave us the opportunity to
experience an emotion that was
appropriate for the circumstances or
feelings we were experiencing.
Furthermore, according to Plato, this is
the aspect of ourselves that enjoys
overcoming challenges and winning for
the satisfaction and honor.

The final one is the Appetitive Soul,

which encompasses all of our varied
desires for different pleasures, comforts,
physical fulfillments, and physiological
ease like eating, drinking any type of
fluids, or for me, this includes some of
our guilty pleasures.
 The Republic is Plato's magnum opus,
and in it, he spoke about this three parts
of the soul, claiming that for justice to
exist in a person, all three must be in
perfect harmony.
According to St. Augustine, a human is
the ideal union of two substances,
namely the body and the soul, much as
Socrates asserted and described the
union of the two as marriage.

He did, meanwhile, concur that man had

St. Augustine
a bifurcated nature, which is a concept
influenced by the merger of Christian
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dogma with Plato’s ancient ideas.
Furthermore, he asserted that while the
soul anticipates awaiting endless life in
blissful connection with God, the body is
destined to die on earth. Therefore, in
order to achieve this aim, each person
should live a life of virtue.
St. Thomas, commonly known as "The
Christian Apostle," added to St.
Augustine's notion that, in fact, a person
is made up of two parts: matter and

St. Thomas
form. St. Augustine had taken this notion
from the ideas of Aristotle and Aquinas.
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Matter, or Hyle in Greek, is the generic
term for the constituent parts of the
universe. In Greek, the word "form" or
 "morphe" signifies the essence of a
substance or entity.

Furthermore, he believed that what set

apart man from other living things was
his soul, or essence and this give life to
the body and define our distinctiveness.

Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher,

acknowledged the existence of a mind
that organizes the experiences that
people have from their environment.

He used a synthesis of the cognitive

capabilities responsible for uniting
objects, representations, experience,

Immanuel Kant
and consciousness in order to arrive at
the cohesive reference to the self.
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In addition, according to Kant, the self is
a human intelligence that actively
engages in synthesizing all knowledge
and experience. As a result, self is more
than just one's personality. It serves as
the nucleus for all human beings'
information acquisition.