VERGA, JASMINE G.

ASSIGNMENT #1
NURS 1-4

ASSIGNMENT #1: The Great Minds and their Philosophies

Direction: Fill out the following table with your thoughts and insights about the different philosophers that we discussed.
SOCRATES PLATO ST. AUGUSTINE DESCARTES LOCKE

- According to Socrates - For Plato, the soul is

the true self is the soul. indestructible and eternal. - For St. Augustine, self is - Descartes believed in body
- Socrates believed that - He splits human soul into relation to God that could and mind dualism.
every man/woman is three parts: reason, spirited be achieved through self- - For him, an individual is - According to Lock
composed of body and and appetites. presentation and self- composed of two parts the: a thinking intellige
KEY IDEAS ABOUT THE soul. - Reason is rational and realization. material body & non that has reason & r
SELF - He also believed that creates wise choices - According to him material body. - He believed that
body is impermanent & - Spirited is non rational and self is - His idea of the ‘mind’ is the In our mind comes
soul id permanent. shows basic emotions having a relationship with same from the idea of experiences or sen
- He believed that soul - Appetites is irrational and God. Plato’s concept of the soul. - For him, self can b
is core identity that make Biological needs. - He also believed that one - For him, mind is the real in memory and no
one distinct. - According to him, reason Could have inner peace self, and it is superior to the substance of body
- According to him, evil always prevails, mind leads through God’s love. body because this is the part
is the result of ignorance the final decision. where ‘mental state’ occurs.

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 - I agree with Socrates
that when we search
for ‘self-knowledge’ we
discover our true self.
IDEAS THAT YOU AGREE - I also agree with his
WITH belief that true self is the
soul, our body is only the
visual representation of
us, the ‘inner being’ can
be found in our soul.
- I also agree that people
know what is right so
when they ignore it,
they choose evil to
prevail.
- I agree with Plato that
soul is eternal. When a
person dies, I believe that
it leaves from the body,
and the dead body starts
to decompose.
- I also agree with that
a human’s soul is
consist of three parts
which are the reason,
spirited and appetite
because as a human being
we must feel those kind
of senses in order to live.
- I agree with about
St. Augustine philosophy
that true self is having
relationship with God and
having trust and faith with
Him.
- I agree with what he said
that love is the highest
virtue, because love
conquers all, there is no
thing that cannot overcome
by love.
- I also agree that with His
love, we can attain inner
peace.
- I agree with Descartes
belief the dualism of body
and mind because our mind
cannot exist independently
without the body.
- I agree with Descartes that
our mind is superior as it
manages our body.
- I also agree that both mind
and body have different
functions but they are still
connected, example is when
your mind tells you to raise
you hand, your hand will
move.
- I agree with Lock
that our self can b
on the consciousn
are the same perso
extent that we are
of our past, presen
future ideas and a
same way we are
of our current act
example reincarna
myself with the sa
but one can be the
person as me if we
same thought, acti
memories so, self
found in our mem

- What I didn’t agree with - I completely agree with - I have nothing to disagree - I have nothing to
Plato’s idea is that when St. Augustine’s philosophy with Descartes philosophy with Locke’s philos
- For me, there is no idea he include the appetite about the self and I have about the self. His idea is about the self. For
of Socrates that I did not in the components of the nothing to disagree with, almost same with Plato and our own memory a
IDEAS THAT YOU agree with. It is because soul. For me our biological because as a Catholic, I Socrates that the mind or experiences make
DISAGREE WITH it gives us clear view on needs is under in the believed that we human soul is the true self not the distinct from one a
reality and everything on concept of body not in are made by God, we do not material body and I agree And that can be co
his philosophy about the soul. It because soul own our body we just completely agree with that. as our self-identity
self, is what I also is eternal and when we borrowed it from Him. Because there is something is rare to have the
believe. die, we cannot feel hunger Therefore, we are born to more about than our body, exact memory wit
or thirst anymore because our
serve and love Him for us which is our mind that someone, that is w
senses are already gone. to complete feel ourselves. thinks logically and critically. memory can be co
as self.