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1[blank_start]_____[blank_end] is often defined as genetic or hormone-based behaviors, traits, and
dispositions. It refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who
we are—from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics.- ANature
2[blank_start]____[blank_end] refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are,
including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social
relationships, and our surrounding culture. While arguments about the
predominance of either nature or nurture are still unresolved, we could settle for
an eclectic standpoint of the issue:- ANurture
3[blank_start]Self[blank_end] Based on the lexical definition, “the person that someone
normally or truly is... or the entire person of an individual”.- ASelf
4[blank_start]Identity[blank_end] Based on the lexical definition, refers to “the qualities,
beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from
others... or the distinguishing character or personality of an
individual”- AIdentity
5[blank_start]Philosophy[blank_end] is often called the mother of all disciplines simply because all fields of
study began as philosophical discourses.- APhilosophy
6[blank_start]Self-awareness[blank_end] is your knowledge of yourself and your worth as a person. An example of awareness is what you hope to gain from meditating. Self-awareness is a result of doing self-discovery.
- ASelf-awareness
7[blank_start]Self-discovery[blank_end] is the process of learning, understanding, or knowing more about yourself and who you are, becoming aware of one's true potential, character, motives, and the like.
- ASelf-discovery
8[blank_start]Empiricism[blank_end] derives explanations of the self from sensory and bodily responses. We know things because we have experienced them through our bodily senses.
- AEmpiricism
9[blank_start]Rationalism[blank_end] there is innate knowledge; they differ in that they choose different objects of innate knowledge. Rationalism explains self from the standpoint of what is “ideal” and the “truth”, not rooted in what is felt by the senses nor our body.
- ARationalism
10[blank_start]Dualism[blank_end] In the modern world “dualism” most often refers to “mind-body dualism,” or the idea that the mind is separate from the body.
- ADualism
11 [blank_start]Socrates[blank_end] known as the "father of Western philosophy" was believed to be the first thinker to focus on the full power of reason on the human self - our existence in the universe, who we are, who we should be, and who we will become.
- ASocrates
12[blank_start]Plato[blank_end] is a dualist; there is both an immaterial mind (soul) and a material body, and it is the soul that represents the self. Plato believed the soul exists before birth and after death.
- APlato
13[blank_start]Reason[blank_end] our divine essence that enables us to think deeply, make wise choices and achieve a true understanding of eterna
- AReason
14[blank_start]Physical Appetite[blank_end] our basic biological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sexual.
- APhysical Appetite
15[blank_start]Will or Spirit[blank_end] is our basic emotion or passion, such as empathy, aggressiveness, love, anger.
- AWill or Spirit
16[blank_start]Aristotle[blank_end] called the ideal as “essence” and the phenomena as “matter”. He also emphasized that the two co-exist and are co-dependent, the essence provides meaning and purpose to the matter, and the matter provides substance and solidity to essence
- AAristotle
17[blank_start]Augustine[blank_end] believes that man is created in the image and likeness of God, and he is essentially a soul whose goal is to be with God.
- AAugustine
18[blank_start]Descartes[blank_end] is the "founder of modern philosophy." Descartes' principle, cogito ergo sum (Latin), is the keystone of his concept of self.
- ADescartes
19[blank_start]John Locke[blank_end] is known for his theory that the mind is a tabula rasa, a blank slate. He believed that we are born without thoughts, or our mind was empty and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience.
- AJohn Locke
20 [blank_start]David Hume[blank_end] believed that the source of all genuine knowledge is our direct sense of experience. He believes in the existence of the mind, and what’s inside the mind is divided into two: impressions and ideas.
- ADavid Hume
21[blank_start]Impressions[blank_end] are those things we perceive through our senses as we experience them.
- AImpressions
22[blank_start]Ideas[blank_end] are those things that we create in our minds even though we are no longer experiencing them.
- AIdeas
23[blank_start]Immanuel Kant[blank_end] argues that it is possible to find the essence of the self. For Kant, man is a free agent, capable of making a decision for himself. Man is a free agent, for he is gifted with reason and free will to enable him to organize the data gathered by the senses. From these data and the way we organize them, we can build an idea of who we are. According to him, the reason is the final authority of morality
- AImmanuel Kant
24[blank_start]Sigmund Freud[blank_end] is not a philosopher, but his views on the nature of the self have had a far-reaching impact on philosophical thinking.
- ASigmund Freud
25[blank_start]Gilbert Ryle[blank_end] simply focused on observable behavior in defining the self. No more inner selves, immortal soul, states of consciousness, or unconscious self: instead, the self is defined in terms of the behavior that is presented to the world.
- AGilbert Ryle
26[blank_start]Paul Churchland[blank_end] disagrees with the concept of dualism. Churchland asserts that since the mind cannot be experienced by the senses, it does not exist. It is the physical brain, not the imaginary mind, that gives us our sense of self. To him, the self is the brain. He focused on the brain states rather than the mental states.
- APaul Churchland
27[blank_start]Maurice Merleau-Ponty[blank_end] takes a very different approach to the self. His ideas suggest that there is unity in our mental, physical, and emotional disposition, and they all affect how we experience ourselves.
- AMaurice Merleau-Ponty
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- Engineering Quiz on UTS, created by Neewatorii V on 22/02/2023.
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