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SELF ACCORDING

TO PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT: GE101
PROFESSOR: MR. JOSHUA M. BULAKLAK
DATE: SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 4, 2024
KAMUSTA KA?
What is Philosophy?
• It means love of wisdom.

• It is an activity people undertake when


they seek to understand fundamental
truths about themselves, the world in
which they live, and their relationships
to the world and to each other.
Socrates
• He was the first philosopher who ever engaged in
a systematic questioning about the self.
• The true task of a philosopher is to know
oneself.
• He thought that this is the worst that can happen
to anyone: to live but die inside.
• Every man is dualistic – composed of body and
soul. The body signifies the imperfect
and impermanent aspect of man, WHILE the soul
signifies otherwise.
Plato
• He said that there are three components of the soul:
• The rational soul is forged by reason and intellect. It
has to govern the affairs of the human person.
• The spirited soul is the one in charge of emotions and
should be kept at bay.
• The appetitive soul is in charge of base desires like
eating, sleeping, drinking, and having sex. It must be
controlled as well.
• When this ideal state is attained, then the human
person's soul becomes just and virtuous.
St. Augustine
• His view of the human person reflects the
entire spirit of the medieval world when it
comes to man.
• He believed that an aspect of man dwells
in the world. It's imperfect and
continuously yearns to be with the Divine
AND the other is capable of reaching
immortality.
• The body is bound to die on earth and the
soul is to anticipate living eternally in a
realm of spiritual bliss in communion with
God.
Thomas Aquinas
• Man is composed of two parts: matter and
form.

Matter refers to the communion


stuff that makes up everything in the
universe.
Form refers to the essence of a
substance or thing.

 The soul is what animates the body. It


is what makes us humans.
Rene Descartes
• Self is a combination of two distinct entities:

The cogito or the thing that thinks (the mind).


The extenza or the extension of the mind (the body).

• The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to


the mind. The human person has it but it is not what makes
a man a man.
cogito ergo sum or "I think therefore, I am"
David
Hume
Empiricism – knowledge can only be
possible if it is sense and experienced.
• The self is a bundle/ collection of different
perceptions, which succeed each other
with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a
perpetual flux and movement.
Impressions are the basic objects
of our experience or sensation. It forms
the core of our thoughts. It is the products
of our direct experience with the world.
Ideas are copies of impressions. It
is not as lively and vivid as impressions.
Immanuel
Kant
• Without the self, one cannot organize
the different impressions that one gets
in relation to his own existence.
• The self is an actively engaged
intelligence in man that synthesizes all
knowledge and experience.
• The self is not just what gives one his
personality but it is the seat of
knowledge acquisition for all human
persons.
Gilbert Ryle
• What truly matters is the behavior
that a person manifests in his day-
to-day life.
• The self is not an entity one can
locate and analyze but simply the
convenient name that people use
to refer to all the behaviors that
people make.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• The mind and body are so intertwined
that they cannot be separated from
one another.
• One cannot find any experience that is
not an embodied experience. All
experience is embodied. One's body is
his opening toward his existence to
the world. Because of these bodies,
men are in the world.
REFERENCES
• Alata, EJ., Caslib, BN., Serafica, JP., and Pawilen, RA.
(2018) Understanding the Self. Rex Book Store. 856
Nicanor Reyes, Sr. St., Sampaloc, Manila

• https://philosophy.fsu.edu/undergraduate-study/why-
philosophy/What-is-Philosophy. Accessed on
September 14, 2021
ACTIVITY: 1. Socrates
State the definition of 2. Plato
SELF accdg. to the 3. St. Agustine
following philosophers. 4. Aquinas
Thereafter, 5. Descartes
differentiate your 6. Hume
concept of "self" from 7. Kant
their concept. 9. Ryle
10. Meleau-Ponty

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