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The Self from Various Perspective (Philosophy)
Cards in this deck (11)
- 1SocratesThe soul is immortal
>Greek
>First moral philosopher - 2PlatoThe soul is immortal
>Greek
>three part soul (reason, spirit and appetite)
>chariot analogy
>Dualism- mind and body are not identical >A soul using the body
- 3Plotinus>Roman philosopher
>Based on Plato's concept
>Soul is perfect, body is not
>Neoplatonism- term used to designated a tradition of Philosophy
- 4St. Augustine>Neoplatonism
>First theologian- study of God
>Dualism
>Body as a cage for the soul
>Physical body is the slave of the soul
- 5St. Thomas Aquinas>Pro-Aristotle
>Hylomorphism- philosophical theory, Aristotle, that views "being" as a compound of matter and form.
>Soul is a principle of life
- 6Rene Descartes>Soul is a thinking entity
>Father of Modern Philosophy
>Dualism
>"I think, therefore I am"
>Real seeker after truth "doubt"
- 7John Locke>The self is consciousness
>awareness and experiences are keys of understanding the self
>Empiricism- sense experience is th primary source of all knowledge
>thinking, reasoning, reflecting identity
- 8David Hume>There is no self
>Empiricist
>If we carefully examine our sense experience through introspection, we will discover that there is no self
- 9Immanuel Kant>We construct the self
>All knowldge comes from experience
>Trancedental Idealism
>The order and organization of our world comes in large measure of us
- 10Sigmund Freud>The self is multilayered
>Psychoanalysis
>2 levels of human function: conscious and unconscious
>Structural model of the mind: id,ego and superego
>Topogrophical model of the mind: conscious, unconscious and preconscious
- 11Gilbert Ryle>The self is how you behave
>attacked against dualism
>Concept of the mind (1949), ghot in the machine, mind and body problem
>Behaviorism- behavior of the people
>Analytic philosopher
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- From the book of John Chaffee entitled The Philosophers Way: Thinking Critically About Profound Ideas credits to the writer and also to the owner of the pictures
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- Andrea J · Oct 2018
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