philosophers

• 2 ways to acquire lessons

  imperative - experiences

  requirements - to exercise self to have moderation
• empiricism - experiences

  rationalism - logic, common sense
• Socrates

  • "know thyself"
  • everyman is composed of body and soul
• Plato

  • man is a dual nature of body and soul
• 3 components

  • rational soul - wise decision

  • spirited soul - emotions

  • appetitive soul - craving for things
• Aristotle

  • the soul is not separated from the body
• Immanuel Kant

  • inner consciousness ( senses and physical )

  • outer consciousness ( intellectual and psychological )
• Rene Descartes

  • "I think, Therefore I Am"

  • Man must use his own mind to develop
• Dualism - mind and body are different from eachother
• John Locke - self is comparable to an empty blank sheet ( tabula rasa )
• David Hume - a person cannot observe oneself without other perceptions
• Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing
• St. Augustine - loving god is loving one's fellowmen
• Thomas Aquinas - the soul is what animates the body
• 2 model of self

  Topography - awareness

  Structural - cannot control
• Id - pleasure or self satisfaction

  ego - reality

  superego - morality
• Gilbert ryle - behaviour a person manifest
• Paul and Patricia Churchland

  • brains are not magical, they are machines
  • neuroscience