“I am doubting, therefore I am” - St. Augustine

St. Augustine

• Religious perspective

• Believes that man cannot be completed without the soul.

• Inseperable: Soul and Body

• Knowing god is equal to knowing ourselve.

• “Knowledge can only come by seeing the truth that dwells within us”

(The truth of which Augustine spoke refers to the truth of knowing god)

Rene Descartes

“ I think therefore I am”

Descartes 2 distinct entities:

• “Cogito”

The thing that thinks.

The mind.

• “Extenza”

The extension.

The body.

(When you think that is already a proof that there is self)

John Locke

“ The self is Consciousness”

• The human mind at birth is Tabula rasa or Blank slate.

• As we experience the more in life the human mind will fill in.

• Through experience we learn.

• When babies born they absolutely know nothing.

( Consciousness = Awareness)

David Hume

“ There is no self ”

• Ideas form through impression.

• There is no self.

• Impression and Ideas

• (Impression = Imagination)

Immanuel Kant

“ We construct the self”

• if you’re going to reflect on it there is self.

• Minds organizes our experiences.

• The self is the product of the reason.

• Our min constructs the reality.

Gilbert Ryle

“ The self is the way people behave “

• more on behavior

• The way we act is the same as who we are.

Paul Churchland

“ The self is the brain “

• Inseperable: Brain and Body

• If brain is gone there is no self

• The mind does no really exist.

• Believes in eliminative materialism

( Mind is a mental state, ability to understand things and generate thoughts and awareness. Brain more on physical think. Compose of nerve cells, Organ.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“ The self is embodied subjectivity”

• The mind and the body are together.

• Both of them is creating who you are

• Inseperable= Mind and Body

( Futile endeavor means no sense or purpose)

(Bifurcation is division of something into two parts.)