UNIT 1 : PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF

Ancient and Medieval Philosophies Modern Philosophies

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perfection of the soul via self examination and self control dialectic Synthesis
Rationalism-thinking main of knowledge
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source

Empiricism knowledge is based observation and

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SOCRATES experience
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on
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"The unexamined life is not North

living .

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Examined Life :
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RENE DESCARTES
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self knowledge
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"I think , therefore I am .

dignified Rationalism
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wisdom ·
Methodic Doubt -
doubt
everything
ignorance searching for certainty
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it well
Never
ending
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search for answers good mind use
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PLA TO
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JOHN LOCKE

"Human desire , emotion, "No man's his

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behavior flows from three main sources :

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knowledge here can

go beyond experience .

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and knowledge Empiricism

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Unique experiences ·
Tabula rasa -

empty spaces filled with experiences

each
other)
Three
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elements of the Psyche (work together or go against
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experience comes before knowledge

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Appetite -

desire ,
comfort

Spirited motivated element DAVID HUME

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2 -

appetitive is controlled
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"There is no self .
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superior different
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3 Mind-most element Most perspective
-controls how the self is expressed ·
self is derived from impressions
controls appetitive and spirited subjective temporary and prejudicial
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Changes
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self can't exist if information it is

temporary
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ST . AUGUSTINE about
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"This is the
very perfection of man ; to find his own imperfec
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tions
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IMMANUEL KANT

sinner -"If himself he must not complain when

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man makes a worm

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religors conviction he is trodden on .

accepting who she is

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Rationalist and empiricist
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self presentation and self realization ·
self is transcendental
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self is outside the body
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Ideas connects the self and the world
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How
We see ourselves is also how others would see us