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• ● Philosophy also serves as a compass to our lives.
• SOCRATES

  ●      An unexamined life is not worth living

  ●      The self is made up of body and soul

  ●      The body which is imperfect and impermanent

  ●      The soul which is perfect and permanent

  -          Soul represents our emotions and feelings.

  -          Spirit connects us to God.
• PLATO

  ●       He supported the idea that man is a dual nature of body and soul.

  ●       He added that there are three components of the soul: The Rational Soul, The Spirited Soul and The

  Appetitive Soul.
• ST. AUGUSTINE

  ●      He agreed that man is of a bifurcated nature.

  ●     The body is bound to die on Earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God.
• ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

  ●      Man is made of matter and form.

  ●      Matter or hyle in Greek refers to the common stuff that makes up the universe.

  ●     Form or morphe in Greek to the essence of a substance. It is what it makes it what it is.
• RENE DESCARTES

  ●       Father of Modern Philosophy

  ●  Proponent of the “methodical doubt” — continuous process of questioning.

  ●       Cogito Ergo Sum

  The self is a combination of two distinct entities — the cogito or the mind and the reality extenza or extension of the mind which is the body.
• JOHN LOCKE

  ●      Blank slate

  ●     He stated that a person is born with knowing nothing and that he is susceptible to stimulation and accumulation of learning from the experiences, failures, references, and observations of the person.

  ●      We are born a clean state (latin word TABULA RASA)
• DAVID HUME

  ●       He is empiricist

  ●       The self is a bundle of impressions

  ●       Impressions are the basic objects of our experience or sensation — basically sensed by our senses.●     Ideas are copies of impressions — the actions after feeling the sensation in our senses.