HOLY TRINITY UNIVERSITY

Puerto Princesa City

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing

ASSIGNMENT IN
UNDERSTANDING THY SELF
WEDNESDAY – TUESDAY

(3:00 pm – 5:00 pm)

Submitted By: ADRIAN B. GARZON

Submitted To: MRS. ELIZABETH ALZAGA

Instructions:

Identify the philosopher who proposed the particular view of self-presented in the first column. Then,
examine your personal view about the nature of self and indicate whether you believe or not in that
philosophical view of self. If you believe in that stated philosophy, recall an important experience you have
had which relates to it. If you do believe, explain your disbelief. How do you think your experiences or
disbelief affect your selfhood?
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Believe It Or
Not (Write B Reason
Philosophical If You Related Life Why I
Philosopher Effects on my Selfhood
view of self Believe; N If Experience Do Not
You Do Not Believe
Believe
An In college, I find that Self-Reflection (Socrates):
unexamined critical thinking and When I take time to think
life is not self-reflection are about my actions and
worth living. crucial, especially in choices, like whether I
nursing, and when I should stay up late studying
am writing my for a nursing exam or get
Socrates B journal everyday enough rest, it helps me
understand myself better.
Just like Socrates said, self-
reflection in everyday life
can lead to making better
decisions.

If human Being gay is Living in Harmony with

beings do not injustice then? Nature (Aristotle): If I
live in LGBTQ members neglect my health by eating
accordance to are not living fast food all the time, it can
their accordance to their lead to feeling unwell. But
nature/function nature/function but when I make choices in line
, the result will will the result be with my body's needs, like
be injustice. Aristotle B injustice? This is eating balanced meals and
how I perceived this exercising, I feel more in
view of Aristotle and tune with myself and avoid
in my experience injustice to my well-being.
this is the unknown
emotion that I was
feeling about the
LGBTQ community.
Self-realization Back in high school, Fulfilling Threefold Nature
is attained by I noticed that (Thomas Aquinas):
fulfilling balancing my Balancing my physical
man’s physical health, health (eating well),
threefold Thomas emotions, and emotional well-being
B
nature: Aquinas academics led to (making time for friends),
vegetative, happier life. and intellectual growth
sentient, and (studying) as a nursing
rational. student helps me realize my
potential.
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The self seeks In high school and Connecting with Faith and
to be united in college, I explored Reason (Aquinas): In
with God my beliefs and college, I've found that
through faith values, combining combining faith (my beliefs)
and reason. faith and reason. In with reason (logical
nursing college, I see thinking) helps me navigate
how faith can challenges. For example,
Thomas provide comfort to using both to make ethical
B
Aquinas patients like in the decisions as a nursing
story of a blind man student enhances my sense
being trick about his of self and purpose.
surroundings to
boost his hope, and
reason helps me
make informed
medical decisions.
The self is a I used to believed Mind-Body Connection
thinking thing my thoughts where (Descartes): When I practice
distinct from tied to my physical mindfulness or exercise
the body. self in high school. regularly, I experience how
In nursing college, I my mental and physical
have learned to well-being are intertwined.
Rene separate my Taking care of my body
B
Descartes emotions from my positively impacts my state
professional of mind and vice versa.
decisions,
understanding that
the mind and the
body are distinct in
certain situations.
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The human In a movie series Blank Slate (John Locke):

mind at birth is that I have watch, As a student, I've learned
a blank slate or the teacher was that I can adapt and grow
tabula rasa. describing her based on my experiences.
student’s; “They’re For instance, after each lab
all empty vessels to skill, I reflect on what I've
be filled with learned and how it shapes
knowledge.” In this my nursing skills. Every
quote I believe we experiences bad or good
were born in a state said my teacher is a learning
John locke B
of blankness. But opportunity to a student
even if we don’t learning. Filling ones
remember curiosity is a human trait
everything from our that is strong to me, that’s
birth and why I some silly things
experiences are yet sometimes.
to happen. I think
our kind was already
full of wonders we
did not expect.
There is no I remember my Bundle of Perceptions
self, only a teacher in (David Hume): When I
bundle of mathematics in think about my identity, I
constantly grade 10 told us that realize it's not set in stone.
changing the only constant is For example, my beliefs and
perceptions change her name is values can change over time
passing ma’am Kit. In high as I gain new experiences
through the David Hume B school, I experienced and perspectives in the city.
theatre of our how my feelings and By having intellectual
minds. thoughts shifted over conversations to other my
time. Every day I am knowledge of a particular
reminded that life is topic can grow and change
full of evolving based on the truth.
situations.
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The self I believe that Transcending Experience

transcends experiences do (Immanuel Kant): College
experience. shaped people but has shown me that I have
even if we the capacity to think beyond
experience the same what I directly experience.
Immanuel trials, our decisions For instance, I can
B
Kant is the power of our contemplate abstract
selves to affect how concepts like justice or
we perceive those ethics in nursing, which go
experiences and it’s beyond my immediate
called free will. experiences.

I act therefor I Now I have come to I Think, Therefore I Am"

am. realized that what (Descartes): Knowing that
you do/act is the real my ability to think proves
you. In my my existence reminds me
experience and in
others, your that have agency in shaping
mannerisms and my life, whether I'm making
unconscious career choices as a nursing
Rene behaviour is the student or deciding how to
B
Descartes accumulated spend my free time in the
experienced that city. Like watching movies
your body is doing rather than doing
all the time. Also assignments is a bad habit
this confirms my of mine, I always
idea that I’m weird procrastinate that’s is why I
because I think I am, sometimes miss deadlines.
therefor I am.

The self is the In my experience The Role of the Brain

brain. this is what my root (Thomas Hobbes):
of anxiety Understanding that my
sometimes comes consciousness is connected
from. to my brain helps me
If the self is the brain appreciate the importance of
Thomas
B then if we die mental health. It encourages
Hobbes
ourselves will seize me to seek help when
to exist because the needed, whether I'm dealing
brain is only part of with stress in college or the
our mortality as challenges of city life.
human.
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The Back in elementary Interconnectedness of

consciousness, and high school, I Consciousness and World
the world, and recognized that my (Maurice Merleau-Ponty):
the human experiences shaped Recognizing that my
body are my understanding of perceptions are influenced
intricately the world. Now in by my surroundings makes
intertwined in nursing college, I see me more mindful of how
knowing the how the my environment affects my
world. interconnectedness thoughts and feelings. For
of the human body instance, the city's bustling
Merleau- and environment streets can impact my mood
B
Ponty significantly and sense of self. And the
influences health circle of friends that I chose
care decisions and is important to shape my
patient outcomes. academic skills and also my
Just like according to future.
Florence Nightingale
emphasized the
significance of
environment in
healthcare recovery
of patients.