PHILOSOPHY

• Name


  Represents who we are, designates us in the world
• Names can signify qualities like "beauty", "lovely", or "king"
• Self


  Something a person perennially molds, shapes, and develops
• Philosophy


  Love of wisdom, an activity to understand fundamental truths about ourselves, the world, and our relationships
• Philosophy has core areas like logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology
• Socrates


  Virtue is the deepest and most basic propensity of man, and self-knowledge is the source of all wisdom
• Plato


  Man has an ideal, perfect self that he must strive to attain through virtue and contemplation
• Augustine and Aquinas


  Man is composed of body and soul, the body is imperfect but the soul can attain communion with the divine
• Descartes


  The self is a thinking entity distinct from the body
• Locke


  Personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity and the choices one makes
• Hume


  The self is just a bundle of perceptions, there is no simple, unified self
• Kant


  All people have basic rights and should be treated as ends in themselves, not merely as means
• Ryle


  The self is not an entity but simply the convenient name for a person's behaviours
• Churchland


  The "folk psychology" of the mind should be replaced by a neuroscientific understanding
• Merleau-Ponty

  The mind and body are so intertwined they cannot be separated, experience is always embodied