GEd 101

UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

Name: Menchie P. Virtusio

Course, Year and Section: BS PetEng,1st year-1102

ACTIVITY # 2: SELF IN ONE LINE

PHILOSOPHERS One sentence definition of self

Socrates The self is an immortal and unitary being that remains
constant over time.
Plato Self has three elements that work together in every individual
namely REASON, PHYSICAL APPETITE and SPIRIT or
PASSION.
St. Augustine Even though the body is a slave of the soul, when this two
united, it makes a man entire and complete.
Descartes The self is a living, breathing creature that performs basic
functions like as thinking, reasoning, and sensing.
Locke The concept of self is that it is unattached to any particular
body or substance since there is a possibility that we have the
same identity in different times and places.
Hume Self does not exist since all of a person's experiences,
including the notion of self, are only perceptions.
Kant Self is the reason in making consciousness to make
everything full of sense.
Freud Self is controlled by both pleasure and reality principle since it
is viewed into being a conscious and unconscious self.
Ryle The self is best understood as a pattern of conduct that guides
a person's behavior in specific situations.
Churchland Self is the product of person’s mental activity.
Merleau-Ponty Self is perceived as the result of the unity of combined mind
and body and the gap between these two is a result of
confused thinking.