LEMUEL L.

MARIANO BSA-1
ASSIGNMENT 3-Understanding Self

PERSPECTIVE/VIEW
(Essentialist,
PHILOSOPHER PICTURE/IMAGE IDEA ABOUT MAN FAMOUS QUOTE #HASHTAG
Protean, or
Undefined)

Socratic philosophy
centers around the
claim that man has "The unexamined
SOCRATES the ability to Protean life is not worth #examinedlife
examine himself living."
through dialogue
with others.
Man have a two
components Body
and Mind or which
“Wise men speak
can exist apart
because they have
from the Body.
something to say;
PLATO Mind or Soul is Essentialist #livingdifferent
Fools because they
indestructible, it
have to say
existed eternally
something.”
before Birth and
will exist eternally
after Death.
ARISTOTLE The man is in the Protean “Knowing yourself #livingvirtue
scheme of nature is the beginning of
as “thinking all wisdom.”
animal.” The spirit
which distinguishes
man as a rational
being is “incapable
of being
destroyed” It is a
special part of the
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ASSIGNMENT 3-Understanding Self
psyche (soul),
which in turn is the
force that
animates the body
Human self is an
immaterial soul
that can think.
After death the
souls of those “This is the very
who most love perfection of a
ST. AUGUSTINE the forms would Protean man, is to find out
#Livingfree
rise to his own
contemplate the imperfections.”
eternal truths, a
sort of heaven
beyond space
and time.
A human was a
composite entity of
mind and body. He
gives priority to
the mind and
“I think; therefore I
RENE DESCARTES argued that the Protean #Thinkingself
am”.
mind could exist
without the body,
but the body could
not exist without
the mind.