PHILOSOPHY REVIEWER (Quiz 1)

Rizal and Kant

• human being is endowed with reason

• he is self autonomous with self regulating will

Karl Jasper

human being is more than what he/she knows about himself/herself

Karl Jasper

believes that human, the being of human is lost in a context of total determintation wa

Human Individuals

determine themselves through their interaction with their environment

Limit Situation

is any of certain situations in which a human being is said to have differing experiences from those arising from ordinary situations

Boundary Situations

are inescapable and inevitable breaks of ordinary patterns of human existence, such as death, sufferings, conflict, tragedy, sickness, failures, communication, struggles and guilt

Dualism

is a philosophical theory based on the idea of opposing concepts, human beings are made up of two independent constituents, the body and the mind or soul.

Plato

• dualism of body and soul

• human soul exist prior to the body and even if after the body is gone

Rene Descartes

• also recognized dualism

• he exists because doubt requires a doubt requires a doubter

• him - doubting is a proof that he is existing

• he that exists is clearly a thing that thinks

• he acknowledged that he is a body that is bound by some figures that can be located in some place and occupy space

• has the power to move, feel and think, this is attributed to body and soul

Thomas Aquinas

• did not believe dualism

• body and soul are not two separate entities, that interact with each other but are one being made up of matter and form

Aristotle

man is the whole of his body and soul. They are one like the oneness of the ugly and his figure. The relation of the body to the soul is the relation of matter to form. The body and soul are only two aspects of the whole man

John Lock

• advance theory of tabula rasa (blank state or page)

• thoughts are conscious

• our consciousness is the criterion