CHAPTER 1: Understanding the Self
PHILOSOPHY - “love of wisdom”
PHILO- LOVE
SOPHIA- WISDOM
“the sense of wonder (pagka-mangha)”
socrates-plato-aristotle
1. SOCRATES
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Sophists- teachers
(Q&A) or conversation method - remember all the knowledge that he has forgotten, including his former omniscient self.
2. PLATO
“Perfection consists in constant recollection and imitation of his former perfect self.”
- founder of the Academy
-a body and a soul.
Soul is the true self - the permanent, unchanging Self
body - only a replica of our true Self.
3. AUGUSTINE
- calls man as great mystery.
- Only God is fully real -as the unchanging, permanent being and he sees God
as the ultimate expression of love.
4. RENE DESCARTES
-“I think therefore I am.”
Man has an ability to think and act but he cannot do it without a body.
‘thinking being’ (Mind more than the Body)
5. JOHN LOCKE
Human mind at birth is tabula rasa.
6. DAVID HUME
Impressions are those things we perceive through our
senses as we experience them; on the other hand, ideas
are those things that we create in our minds even though
we are no longer experiencing them.
7. IMMANUEL KANT
man is gifted
with reason and free will.
8. SIGMUND FREUD
-One of his famous ideas was the tripartite
division of man- the id, ego, and the superego.
9. GILBERT RYLE
-(The Concept of the Mind)
-“Minds are things, but different sorts of things from bodies.”
10. PAUL CHURCHLAND
“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing
moral facts. It is called the brain.”
11. MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
-“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
PHILOSOPHY - “love of wisdom”
PHILO- LOVE
SOPHIA- WISDOM
“the sense of wonder (pagka-mangha)”
socrates-plato-aristotle
1. SOCRATES
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Sophists- teachers
(Q&A) or conversation method - remember all the knowledge that he has forgotten, including his former omniscient self.
2. PLATO
“Perfection consists in constant recollection and imitation of his former perfect self.”
- founder of the Academy
-a body and a soul.
Soul is the true self - the permanent, unchanging Self
body - only a replica of our true Self.
3. AUGUSTINE
- calls man as great mystery.
- Only God is fully real -as the unchanging, permanent being and he sees God
as the ultimate expression of love.
4. RENE DESCARTES
-“I think therefore I am.”
Man has an ability to think and act but he cannot do it without a body.
‘thinking being’ (Mind more than the Body)
5. JOHN LOCKE
Human mind at birth is tabula rasa.
6. DAVID HUME
Impressions are those things we perceive through our
senses as we experience them; on the other hand, ideas
are those things that we create in our minds even though
we are no longer experiencing them.
7. IMMANUEL KANT
man is gifted
with reason and free will.
8. SIGMUND FREUD
-One of his famous ideas was the tripartite
division of man- the id, ego, and the superego.
9. GILBERT RYLE
-(The Concept of the Mind)
-“Minds are things, but different sorts of things from bodies.”
10. PAUL CHURCHLAND
“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing
moral facts. It is called the brain.”
11. MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
-“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”