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Self discovery

process of learning, understanding, or knowing more about yourself and who you are, becoming aware of one’s true potential, character, motives and the like

Self-Awareness

is your knowledge of yourself and your worth as a person.

personality?

It is defined as one that is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. The self is your total personality.

Issues of the Self

Self-understanding is a journey.

Nature

often defined as genetic or hormone-based behaviors, traits, and dispositions.

Nurture

refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture.

Self

Based on the lexical definition, “the person that someone normally or truly is..

Identity

• Based on the lexical definition, it refers to “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from others.. Or the distinguishing character or personality of an individual”

Philosophy

• is often called the mother of all disciplines simply because all fields of study began as philosophical discourses.

Philo

loving

Sophia

(knowledge, wisdom).

philosophy means

 ‘loving knowledge’ or ‘loving wisdom’.

Greeks meant

• “the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake”.

• philosophical lenses:

Empiricism, Rationalism, Dualism

Empiricism

Derives explanation of the self from sensory and bodily responses.

Rationalism

There is innate knowledge; they differ in that they choose different objects of innate knowledge.

Dualism

• In the modern world “dualism” most often refers to “mind body dualism”, or the idea that the mind is separate from the body

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living

For Socrates, the self exists in two parts:

• physical body and the soul

physical body

is a tangible aspect of us

soul

immortal is eternal, unchanging

Plato

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self”

Plato

 dualist; there is both an immaterial mind (soul) and a material body, and it is the soul that represents the self.

Reason

• our divine essence that enables us to think deeply, make wise choices and achieve a true understanding of eternal;

Physical Appetite

•  our basic biological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sexual; and

Will or Spirit

•  is our basic emotion or passion, such as empathy, aggressiveness, love, anger.

Aristotle

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

John Locke:

“The Self is Consciousness"

John Locke

is known for his theory that the mind is a tabula rasa,  a blank slate.

Immanuel Kant:

“We Construct the Self”

For Kant,

man is a free agent, capable of making a decision for himself.

Gilbert Ryle:

“The Self is How you Behave”.

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

“The Self is An Embodied Subjectivity”

Sociology

• Is the study of the role of society in shaping behavior

Family

• It is the most influential social group that impacts us in the entire course of development

Schools

Our world perspectives go bigger as we get exposed to more people and a formal set of standards.

Communities

• Our cultural belief and practices are influenced by what our communities and societies dictate

George Herbet Mead’s Social Self Theory

The “I” self - 

The “I” self - 

• It is considered the present and future phase of the self

The “Me” Self

• It represents learned behaviors, attitudes, and expectations of others and society

Cooley and the Looking Glass Self Theory

Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

He is a sociologist who stated that individuals develop their concept of self by observing how they are perceived by others, a concept Cooley coined as the “looking-glass self”

The Self Embedded in Culture

Culture (Edward Taylor)

Culture (Edward Taylor)

• A complex whole that includes knowledge, beliefs, morals, law, customs, arts, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by a human as a member of society

The Material Culture

• The things that people make and use

The Non-Material Culture

• Includes intangible human creations like beliefs, values, norms, morals, rules, language, and organizations

Anthropology

• Is the study of people and cultures in the past and today

Archeology

1. the study of how people lived in the past Archeologists learn from things people leave behind or artifacts like pottery, tools, relics, ceramics, weapons, or anything made or used by humans

The Manunggul Ja

•  its a second burial jar that was excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the manunggul cave of tabon caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan, Philippines

Physical Anthropology

it is the study of human biology, including how people adapt to where they live and how bodies change overtime

Linguistic Anthropology

1. is the study of how people speak and the words they use and how their language developed and evolved

Baybayin

•  is the pre-colonial beautiful ancient writing script of the islands of philippines 

Cultural Anthropology

1. the study of how people live their lives in the present and how they may have lived in the past, including the tools they used and the food they produced and consumed

Psychology

• Commonly defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental process. It has existed since the late 19th century, with 1879 often being given as a starting date because that was when the first psychological research lab was founded

Psychological and the Self

The Psychology of self focuses on the representation of an individual based on his/her experiences.

William James

 The Me-Self/I-Self Theory

“Me-self”

• is the phenomenal self, the experienced self or the self as known. It is the self that has experienced the phenomena and who had known the situation

“I-self”

• is the self-thought or the self-knower

The material self

It is constituted by our bodies, clothes, immediate family, and home.

The social self

Based on our interactions with society and the reaction of people towards us.

The spiritual self

• Our inner or our psychological self. It comprises our self-perceived abilities, attitudes, emotions, interests, values, motives, opinions, traits, and wishes.  Many aspects of the spiritual self are evaluative. People think of themselves as attractive or unattractive, intelligent or unintelligent, and honest or dishonest

Carl Rogers’ Self theory

real self and ideal self

Carl Rogers’ Self theory

believed that we all own a real self and ideal self.

The Ideal Self 

• It is the self that we think we want to be, that we strive to be and that we feel we are expected to be