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MODULE 1

THE SELF FROM VARIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES

LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
1. Explain the program and your institution’s vision-mission statements and objectives;
2. Focus your attention as well as listen wholeheartedly and openly to each member of the class
during sharing sessions; and
3. Demonstrate self-understanding and self-acceptance.

ACTIVITY

Do you truly know your self?

Answer the subsequent questions about your self as completely and exactly as you can.

1. How would you characterize your self?

-i'm a procrastinator, always late in everything and postponing work mostly because of laziness or
habitual carelessness.
-i'm a good friend and a fun person to be around.
-I love music, books, reading manga, watching movies and anime and mending things.
-And i'm always positive and does not care about others who are interrupting myself.

2. What makes you stand out from the rest what makes your self especial?

What Makes me stand out from the rest:

-I think from focusing on developing and learning new things. As a result, I am now a Registered Electrical
Engineer, Registered Master Electrician, an IT, and has National Certificate in Housekeeping, Security
Services and Computer Hardware/Sofware Servicing.
What Makes myself especial:
-I think myself was special because I always enjoy life even though i am still encountering a lot of
problems, I ever considering things, mostly the natural ways as an artificial way to happiness.
3. How has your self transformed itself?

I think from thinking positively and seeing the brighter side in any situation and by correcting mistakes
and gaining lesson and experience from it.

4. How is your self connected to your body?

I think through mind, heart, soul and emotion because every feeling there was an action that corresponds
to it. For example, if you are emotional, happy, stress etc. your body will react to that.

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 5. How is your self related to other identities?

I think by understanding, being aware, being sensitive, and vicariously experiencing the
feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the
feelings, ideas, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.

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

I don't know, but maybe our spirit and body will be separated, and the essence of who we are will always
live.

Analysis

Were you able to answer the questions above with easiness? Why? Which questions did you find
easy to answer? Which ones are hard? Why?

Questions Easy or difficult to answer? Why?

1. How would you characterize easy ----- 1,2. I know my self that's why I can set
yourself?
2. What makes you stand out from the easy ----- this as easy.
3. because I based it on my experience
rest what makes your self especial?
3. How has your self transformed itself? easy as I grew toward maturity.
4. How is your self connected to your 4. Because I based it in my own action
easy
body? that is equal to our body so that i can
5. How is your self related to other difficult understand it's relation to myself.
identities? 5. because i'm always soloing and not
6. What will happen to your self after difficult interacting with others
you die? 6. because in my whole life i didnt think
of that

Can one truly know the self? Do you want to know about self?

Abstraction

The diverse viewpoints and opinions on the self can be best understood by re-examining its major
doers and classify the greatest significant estimations completed by theorists from the earliest eras to the
modern era. (Please purchase and read the book Understanding the Self by Alata et al. , 2018)

Application and Assessment

In your own words, state what “self” is for each of the following philosophers. After doing so,
explain how your idea of “self” is well-matched with how they considered of the “self”.

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1. Socrates

2. Plato

3. Augustine

4. Descartes

5. Hume

6. Kant

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7. Ryle

8. Merleau-Ponty

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