Understanding The Self

FOR QUIZ 1

Dialectic Method

Individual attains clarity of concepts of virtue, values, practices, or beliefs that comprise the self through a method characterized by question and answer that moves the inquiry to a deeper length.

Methodic Doubting

Through this method, personal concept of the self is challenged and suggests accepting only that thing that is absolute truth. 

Experience

This is very important in gaining knowledge and developing the self to rise from tabularasa nature of the self. 

Socratic Method

the foundation of critical thinking, a method of questioning that challenges accuracy and completeness of thinking in a way that acts to move people towards their ultimate goal.

Socrates

”the unexamined life is not worth living”

appetitive element

(desires, pleasures, physical satisfactions, comforts, etc.)

mind element (the nous)

(decides, analyses, thinks ahead, proposes what is best, and rationally controls both the appetitive and spirited elements)

spirited element

(excited when given challenges, or fights back when agitated, or fights for justice when unjust practices are evident)

HUMAN AWAKENING

awareness of own ignorance of something happening inside or outside himself

RECOLLECTION

an act of making sense out of the multiplicity of things to have ideas (e.g. learning, wisdom)

EXTERNAL AGENT

can break the prisoner’s chain, make him turn around, and bring him step-by-step outside the cave of shadows to the light by employing dialectic method

RENE DESCARTES

affirm that man is a thinking thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses and which also imagines and feels

MAN is a RATIONAL BEING

-evaluates thts. and actions, builds the basis for universal truths and morals, controls us to act savage to one another, build peace and live it

DEDUCTION

mental power moves from a certainly known fact to a conclusion which is implied by the fact

INTUITION

an intellectual activity or clear vision that leaves no doubt in the mind attained through REASON IN THE MIND

John Locke

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience

REFLECTION

involves perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the activities of the mind that produce ideas

KNOWLEDGE

the perception of the connection of and agreement or disagreement and inconsistency or incompatibilityof any of our ideas

Intuitive Knowledge

immediate, leaves no doubt, and is the clearest and most certain…” *e.g. recognizing a serious person from a comedian.

Demonstrative Knowledge

happens “when our minds engage in trying to discover the agreement or disagreement of ideas by calling attention to other ideas leading the mind to a knowledge of some form of existing reality”

Sensitive knowledge

knowledge of the existence of particular things based on sensory experience *senses could be deceiving

ST. AUGUSTINE

believed that a human person is bifurcated in nature. For him, a human being is a dualistic view of the separation between the body and soul.

ST. AUGUSTINE

 According to him, the “self is in search of happiness, because after all, we, humans, are eudemonic characters: our satisfaction in this life is derived from happiness.”

IMMANUEL KANT

sensing and reason come into play in our conception of the world

Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham

Proposed the Johari’s Window

Open Self

Information about you that both you and others know

Blind Self

information about you that you don’t know but others do know

Hidden Self

Information about you that you know but others don’t know

Unknown Self

Information about you that neither you nor others know

Psychology

a science that studies human behavior

Personality

from the Latin word persona means mask used by actors in a play

Personality

“I” or everything about yourself – your likes, dislikes, fears, and virtues, strengths and weaknesses.

Personality

In Psychology:

-the unique, relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a person’s character that influence behavior in different situations

APA

Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns.