CHAPTER 1: Understanding the Self

WISDOM

SOPHIA

LOVE

PHILO

PHILOSOPHY

“love of wisdom”

SOCRATES

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

Sophists

teachers

PLATO

a body and a soul

“Perfection consists in constant recollection and imitation of his former perfect self.”

- founder of the Academy

Soul

the permanent, unchanging Self

AUGUSTINE

calls man as great mystery.

Only God is fully real -as the unchanging, permanent being and he sees God

as the ultimate expression of love.

RENE DESCARTES

“I think therefore I am.”

Man has an ability to think and act but he cannot do it without a body.

‘thinking being’ (Mind more than the Body)

JOHN LOCKE

Human mind at birth is tabula rasa.

DAVID HUME

Impressions are those things we perceive through our

senses as we experience them; on the other hand, ideas

are those things that we create in our minds even though

we are no longer experiencing them.

IMMANUEL KANT

man is gifted

with reason and free will.

SIGMUND FREUD

-One of his famous ideas was the tripartite

division of man- the id, ego, and the superego.

GILBERT RYLE

-(The Concept of the Mind)

-“Minds are things, but different sorts of things from bodies.”

PAUL CHURCHLAND

“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing

moral facts. It is called the brain.”

MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”