GNED 08 - Understanding the Self Part 1: The Self From Various Perspectives

Gilbert Ryle

Self is the BODY

Patricia and Paul Churchland

Mans brain is responsible for the identity known as the ‘ self Biochemical properties Individuals thoughts, feelings, and actions come from abnormalities in the brains anatomy and physiology.

Sophia

means wisdom.

knowledge

He defined ________ as a result of human understanding applied to sense experience.

Sigmund Freud

revolutionizes ideas to determine human behavior.

Role of Love St Augustine

The ________ is in agreement with the Greeks that man searches for happiness.

Superego

Moral princple Structure of mind.

Eros

or life instinct- Energy of eros is called ‘ libido.

Love

is a process of seeking higher stages of being.

St Augustine

The sinful of man- According to ________, the cause of sin or evil is an act of mans free will.

John Locke

Immanuel Kant Mind

actively participates un knowing the objects it experiences Instead of mind conforming it to the world, the external world conforms to the mind.

Socratic Method

Also called The Dialectic Method This method involves asking a series of questions seeking to find consistency and point out contradictions.

David Hume SELF

________ in the mind where it receives materials from the senses and calls it perceptions.

Love

________ is the way of knowing and realizing the truth.

Big Three

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Platos Dualism The Realm of Forms

Composed of eternal things which are permanent and perfect

The Realm of the Shadows

Composed of changing, sensible things which re lesser entities and therefore imperfect and flawed

St. Augustines View of Human Nature God as the source of all reality and truth

According to St. Augustine without God as the source of all truth, man could never understand eternal truths

The sinful of man

According to St. Augustine, the cause of sin or evil is an act of mans free will

The Mind-Body Problem Soul/Mind (also the self)

a substance that is separate from the body

3 Laws to Locke Law of Opinion

Where actions are praiseworthy are virtues and those are not called vice

Civil Law

where right actions are enforced by people in authority

Divine Law

Set by God on the actions of man

Two types of perceptions Impressions

immediate sensations of external reality

Ideas

recollections of impressions These two together make up the content of the human mind

Humes View of Human Nature The self is a product of imagination He also stated that there is no such thing as ‘personal identity behind perceptions and feelings that comes and go There is no permanent/ unchanging self Three Principles On How Ideas Relate to One Another The Principle of Resemblance

sensing the likeness of current experience to previous experiences

The Principle of Contiguity

Associating an event to another level

The Principle of Cause and Effect

Principle that all events have sufficient causes

Three levels of Mind I. Id

Pleasure principle II

Ego

Reality principle III

Superego

Moral princple Structure of mind

Eros or life instinct

Energy of eros is called ‘libido

Thanatos or death instinct

Behaviour towards destruction in a form of aggression and violence

Philos

Which means love "