Philosophy Exam

Consciousness

immaterial non-substance

John Locke

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* External/sensible objects ---> Ideas
* Internal operations of the mind _^

 

* Person = "__thinking intelligent__ being, that has __reason and reflection__, and can consider its __self__ as it__self__, the same thinking thing in different times and places."
* I
* Action
* Thoughts
* Feelings

David Hume

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* Self identity is an elusive idea; impermanent
* Sense experience ---> Impressions ---> Idea of Self

Immanuel Kant

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* Transcendental Self/Transcendental apperception/noumenal self
* Transcendental self
* Sense experiences
* Impressions
* A prior ideas
* Consciousness

Hinduism

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* Monism = all reality is one
* Brahman = the fundamental of reality, no distinction in true reality, Absolute reality
* Human Condition: suffering
* Maya: illusory world
* Jiva: everyday consciousness
* Atman = true, divine self | indistinguishable from Brahman
* Reincarnation (samsara)
* Moksha (release from samsara)
* Karma = moral principle
* Dharma = obligation or duty
* Raja: that of meditation and psychic control
* Ginana: enlightenment through philosophical inspection
* Samsara: cycle of reincarnation

Buddhism

* Four Noble Truths:

1\. Life is suffering (dukkha).

2\. Desire causes suffering.

3\. Destroy suffering by getting rid of desire.

4\. This done by the Eightfold Path.

* Hedonism - Buddhism - asceticism
* Empirical Self

1\. Body

2\. Sensation

3\. Perception

4\. Mental Formations

5\. Consciousness

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