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    1. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self and its relationship to the body and soul. Some key views are that the soul survives death (Socrates), the soul is the essence of self (Plato), the soul dwells in the body on Earth (Augustine), the soul gives humans essence over other animals (Aquinas), experience and reflection help us understand ourselves (Locke, Hume, Descartes). The self synthesizes sense experiences (Kant) and has both conscious and unconscious aspects (Freud). Views of the self have implications for understanding the relationship between mind and body.

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    1. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self and its relationship to the body and soul. Some key views are that the soul survives death (Socrates), the soul is the essence of self (Plato), the soul dwells in the body on Earth (Augustine), the soul gives humans essence over other animals (Aquinas), experience and reflection help us understand ourselves (Locke, Hume, Descartes). The self synthesizes sense experiences (Kant) and has both conscious and unconscious aspects (Freud). Views of the self have implications for understanding the relationship between mind and body.

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    1. Philosophers have debated the nature of the self and its relationship to the body and soul. Some key views are that the soul survives death (Socrates), the soul is the essence of self (Plato), the soul dwells in the body on Earth (Augustine), the soul gives humans essence over other animals (Aquinas), experience and reflection help us understand ourselves (Locke, Hume, Descartes). The self synthesizes sense experiences (Kant) and has both conscious and unconscious aspects (Freud). Views of the self have implications for understanding the relationship between mind and body.

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    Activity 3

    Summary of the Philosophy about SELF and Reflection

    Philosopher What it says about SELF Reflection

    In addition to our physical bodies,


    each person possesses an immortal All of our senses are having significant
    1. Socrates
    soul that survives beyond the death of connection to our body and into a realm
    the body

    The essence of the self - the soul -as


    a unified, indissoluble, immortal entity This makes us (humans) different to
    2. Plato that remains the same over time, he animals. We think, we reason, and
    also recognizes the inherent decide.
    difficulties with this view.

    He enthusiastically adopted Plato's


    vision of a bifurcated universe in
    which "there are two realms, an
    Yes, we do have soul and this would
    intelligible realm where truth itself
    3. St. Augustine our life when we're with god, not in
    dwells, and this sensible world which
    heaven but here on Earth.
    we perceive by sight and touch," but
    then adopted this metaphysics to
    Christian beliefs.

    Matter or hyle refers to the common


    stuff that makes up everything in the
    Our body is naturally related from
    universe. Man's body is part of this
    4. Thomas Aquinas cosmos but there is something that
    matter. Form or morphe refers to the
    makes us (humans) special - the soul.
    essence of a substance or thing. It is
    what makes it what it is.

    We need to use our own thinking


    abilities to investigate, analyze, I do not let myself ruled by anyone in
    5. Rene Descartes experiment, and develop our own belief, tradition and something I
    well-reasoned conclusions, supported supposed to believe.
    with compelling proof.

    We are furnished with the ideas


    through experience and we My experiences are helping me to know
    6. John Locke form our knowledge via experience more about myself. People and
    too. Experience is that upon which ‘all surroundings can truly affect my mood.
    our knowledge is founded.
    Premise of understanding the
    ‘impression’ and ‘identity’ we have of
    ourselves before we dwell into the
    questions of ‘the self. As human
    beings we tend to think of ourselves I keep on asking myself different
    7. David Hume as selves—who are stable entities questions everyday and it leads me to a
    that exist over time but no matter how path of finding the truth.
    closely we examine our own
    experiences, we never observe
    anything beyond a series of transient
    feelings, sensations, and impressions.

    It's our self that makes experiencing


    an intelligible world possible because
    it's the self that is responsible for Probably, It's been always used in
    8.Immanuel Kant
    synthesizing the discreet data of problem solving and in our everyday life
    sense experience into a meaningful
    whole.

    Two levels of human functioning- the


    conscious and the unconscious -differ I'm aware that I am conscious but I am
    9. Sigmund Freud
    radically both in their content and in not aware that I am also unconscious.
    the rules and logic that govern them.

    He thought of his approach as a


    logical behaviorism, focused on
    creating conceptual clarity, not on
    developing techniques to condition
    and manipulate human behavior. It is Sometimes, I just ignore what are
    10. Gilbert Ryle high time that this destructive myth of seemingly unimportant in my living. I'm
    dualism is debunked once after all, just noticing what should be noticed.
    and replaced with a clearer
    conceptual and linguistic
    understanding of the true nature of
    the self.
    Being Negative thinker or Positive
    thinker really affects the body. When
    11. Paul It simply emotions and relations are
    I'm too negative to myself, my body feel
    Churchland cognitive to physical body of human
    exhausted and more often resulted to
    nervous breakdown.

    There's not a duality of substance but If we think deeper, our body is


    12. Maurice
    only the dialectic of living being in its obviously connected to our mind. We
    Merleau Ponty
    biological milieu just have different kind of thinking.

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