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Gilbert Ryle proposed that self is best understood through a person's behaviors and dispositions rather than as a separate mind or soul. He critiqued Descartes' view of the mind/body dualism. According to Ryle, the mind is not something separate from the body but rather is the sum of a person's tendencies to act in certain ways based on their knowledge, feelings, and desires. He concluded that we can only understand the self by observing the external manifestations of a person's behaviors and actions.

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Gilbert Ryle proposed that self is best understood through a person's behaviors and dispositions rather than as a separate mind or soul. He critiqued Descartes' view of the mind/body dualism. According to Ryle, the mind is not something separate from the body but rather is the sum of a person's tendencies to act in certain ways based on their knowledge, feelings, and desires. He concluded that we can only understand the self by observing the external manifestations of a person's behaviors and actions.

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Gilbert Ryle

Self Perspective

prepared by:
ANTHONET M. DAGÑALAN
Gilbert Ryle
• Gilbert Ryle was born in Brighton Sussex,
England on August 19,1900.
• He was born in a prosperous family
together with his 9 other siblings. Ryle's
interest in philosophy was passed to him
by his father.
• He went to Queen's College, Oxford in
1919 to study classics but he was quickly
drawn to philosopy which he graduated
with in 1924 with first-class honours in
the new Modern Greats School of
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
• Ryle died on October 6,1976 at Whitby in
Yorkshire.
" Self is how people behave"

" I act, there I am"


• Self is best understood as a collection of
behavior that leads to a person to behave in
accordance with different circumstances.
• For example, you can easily tell whether that
certain person is talkative, intelligent, and so on
for what their behavior speaks towards other
people. If he/she keeps on smiling, then that
person is a positive one.
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01 is a rebuttal of Descartes 'res the 'mind' is nothing other than the
dispositions of people to behave according
cogitans', which he calls the to what they know, how they feel, what
they desire and so on.
"The Ghost in the Machine".

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03 Ryle concludes that mind is not
separate from the body. Mind is just the
SELF IS THE BEHAVIOR PRESENTED BY sum of all our dispositions, and we know
THE PERSON about it because of the way people behave.
Gilbert Ryle proposed his Positive View in his “Concept
of the Mind” which was started as the stern critique of
Descartes’ dualism of the mind and body. According to
Ryle, the thinking will never be found because it is just
a “ghost in the machine”. This means that Ryle finds
the philosophy of Descartes totally absurd. Ryle
insisted that the mind is never separate from the
body. In his propositions, the physical actions and
behaviors are dispositions of the self and these derives
from one’s inner private experiences.
According to Ryle, we will be only able to
understand the self based from the external
manifestations. Therefore, the mind is nothing
but a disposition of the self. All the
manifestations of the physical activities or
behavior ate the dispositions off the self, which is
the basis of the statement: “I act therefore I am”
or “You are what you do”.

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