Name: Aubrey C.

Lazarraga
Course: BSBA-HRM
CHAPTER 1
ACTIVITY
Do You Truly Know Yourself?
Answer the following questions about your self as fully and precisely as you can.
1. How would you characterize your self?

2. What makes you stand out from the rest? What makes you self special?

3. How has your self transformed itself?

4. How is your self connected to your body?

 5. How is your self related to other selves?

6. What will happen to your self after you die?

ANALYSIS
Where you able to answer the questions above with ease? Why? Which questions did you
find easiest to answer? Which ones are difficult? Why?
Questions Easy or difficult to answer? Why?
APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT
In your own words, state what “self” is for the following philosophers.
After doing so, explain how your concept of “self” is compatible with how they conceived of the
“self”.
1. Socrates

2. Plato

3. Augustine

4. Descartes

5. Hume
6. Kant

7. Ryle

8. Merleau-Ponty

ACTIVITY
My self Through the Years
Paste a picture of you when you were in elementary, in high school, and now that
you are in college. Below the picture, list down your salient characteristics that you
remember.
 My Elementary Self My High School Self My College Self

ANALYSIS
After having examined your “self” in its different stages, fill out the table below.
Similarities in all stages of my Difference in my “self” across Possible reasons for the
“self” the three stages of my life differences in me

APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT

Answer the following questions cogently but honestly. Write your answer in the space
provided.
1. How would you describe your self?
 2. What are the influences of family in your development as an individual?

3. Think of a time when you felt you were your “true self” What made you think you
were truly who you are during this time of your life?

4. Following the question above, can you provide a time when you felt you were not
living your “true self”? Why did you have to live a life like that? What did you do about
it?

5. What social pressures help shape your self? Would you have wanted it otherwise?

6. What aspects of your self do you think may be changed or you would like to change?

APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT

Do a research and list ten (10) things to boost your self-esteem or improve your self-concept.
Cite your sources. Analyze which of those tips are more likely to backfire and make someone
conceited or narcissistic and revised them to make the statements both helpful to the individual
as well as society in general.
ACTIVITY
Two sides of the Same Planet
Write top five (5) differences between Western and Eastern society, culture, and individuals
in the table below. Cite your sources.

WESTERN EASTERN

ANALYSIS
Do you agree with the differentiation between the West and the East? Where you can find
the Philippines in the distinction? What are the factors that make the Philippines similar or
different from its Asian neighbors? Is there also a difference between regions or ethnolinguistic
groups in the Philippines?