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SAQ4: In your own words, state what “self” is for each of the following philosophers.

Philosopher Concept of Self

According to Socrates, one's essential self is not to be identified with what
Socrates they own, their social rank, their reputation, or even their bodies. Instead,
our essential self, according to Socrates, is our soul.
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by
yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.” Plato believed that the
Plato
true self of human beings is the reason or intellect that makes up their soul
and is separate from their body.
Descartes claims that the self can be thought of as either a mind or a
human being, and that the self's attributes change depending on which
Descartes definition is used. For example, the self is simple when viewed in the
context of a mind, but it is composite when viewed in the context of a
human person.
Personal identity (the self) "depends on consciousness, not on material"
or on the soul, according to Locke. The core of the self, according to
Locke
Locke, is its conscious consciousness of itself as a thinking, reasoning,
and reflecting entity.
According to David Hume, the self is nothing more than a collection of
perceptions, like links in a chain. There is no holistic impression of the
"self" that connects our separate sensations, implying that we are never
Hume directly conscious of ourselves, but just of what we are experiencing at
the time. Our concept of the self, according to Hume, is the product of our
inherent tendency to attribute unitary existence to any collection of linked
elements.
We all have an inner and exterior self, according to him, which together
make up our consciousness. Our psychological state and rational intellect
Kant
make up our inner self. Our senses and the physical world are part of our
exterior self.
Ryle questioned the idea of the mind using everyday language
philosophy. Ryle felt that self-derives from behavior, arguing that the
Ryle
mind does not exist and hence cannot be the center of self. We're all just
a mixture of behaviors brought on by the body's mechanics.
Churchland believes in materialism, or the concept that there is nothing
but matter. When we talk about the mind, we're talking about the physical
Churchland
brain, not the mind. Furthermore, our sense of self is derived from the
physical brain.