PHILOSOPHER DESCRIPTION OF SELF

1.Socrates He defined the self as the soul and the body. Which means
that the soul is the immortal one while the body is the tangible
and mortal one.

2. St. Augustine He defined self as our relationship to God, the way we

acknowledge His love and how one will respond to it.

3.Rene Descartes He defined self as the mind or the way how one will think
about itself and its existence that is separated from the body.

4.John Locke He defined self as our consciousness which is our capability

to feel pain and capable of happiness and when this
consciousness of ours combines with our body and soul it
forms the person.

5.David Hume He defined self as a bundle of perceptions that we created

depending on how we want others to perceive us and it is the
result of our natural habits of attributing unified existence,

6. Immanuel Kant He divided the self into two parts which is the inner and the
outer self. The inner self is the thinking part or the
psychological aspect while the outer self is the doing part or
the one that is present in the physical world.

7. Patricia She defined the self as our physical brain and not the mental
one and through our physical brain it is where we get our
Churchland sense of self.

8. Maurice He defined self as the physical self which refers to our

physical body and objectifies self and makes the physical
Merleau-Ponty body as the important part in defining ourselves.