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• Self


  a person's essential being which distinguishes you from others
• Components of the self

  Separate, self-contained, unitary, private, independent, consistent
• Self-contained


  It has its own unique thoughts, characteristics, and volition. Even when society dictates what should be done, a person has its own way of expressing their true self.
• Separate


  The self is distinct from other selves, as no two persons are exactly alike–

  biologically, psychologically and socially –not even identical twins.
• independent


  In itself, it can exist
• private


  Each person sorts out information, feelings, emotions, and thought processes within self. It has
• consistent


  It has personality that is enduringand is expected to persist for some time.

  Their personality has patterns but is not necessarily predictable in response to a stimuli.
• unitary


  It is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run through a person.
• The Self in Greek Philosophy

  Socrates and Plato
• Socrates


  “an unexamined life is not worth living”
• Socrates


  thought that the worst that can happen to anyone: to live but die inside.
• socrates


  dualism
• dualism

  body and soul
• Body


  material component

  impermanent aspect
• Soul


  immaterial/ immortal component

  perfect and permanent aspect
• plato


  rational soul, spirited soul, and appetitive soul
• rational soul


  soul forged by reason and intellect
• spirited soul


  in charge with emotions
• appetitive soul


  in charge with base desires like eating, drinking, sleeping and having sex are controlled as well
• The self in medieval philosophy

  St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas
• St. Augustine


  The self is composed of the body, soul, and

  spirit.
• Body


  the outer part of the self through which the self can come in contact with the world.
• soul


  the inner part of the self which is composed of the

  mind, the emotions and the will.
• Spirit


  the self can communicate

  with God
• St. Thomas Aquinas


  Man is composed of two parts: matter & form.
• Matter or hyle


  refers to the “common stuff that makes up everything in the universe”. Man’s body is part of this matter.
• Form or morphe


  refers to the “essence of a substance or thing.”
• Rene Descartes


  “Cogito ergo sum―”I think therefore I am”
• Rene Descartes


  The essence of a human being lies in his capacity to think

  as thinking cannot be doubted
• John Locke


  The human mind at birth is tabula rasa or blank slate.
• tabula rasa

  blank state
• john locke


  The self or personal identity is constructed primarily from sense experience― specifically, what people see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
• David Hume


  There is no such thing as “self!”
• David Hume


  It is simply a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, & are in a perpetual flux & movement.
• David Hume


  The contents of the mind are divided into two
• Impressions and ideas (contents if the mind)
• Impressions


  which are the things which the senses perceive and thus experiencein the world
• ideas


  which refer to the things

  that are created in the mind about the things experiencedthrough

  the senses.
• Emmanuel Kant


  According to him,we all have an inner and an outer self which together form our consciousness.
• Inner Self


  comprised of our psychological state and our rational intellect.