Nathaniel Z.

Castillo

BSAIS – 1B

GE 101

1. Socrates
- He thought that this is the worst that can happen to anyone: to live but die inside.

For me it’s like showing the outside world that you’re happy but deep inside you are broken, bleeding
and barely surviving the wounds of the past. It is the worst ever scenario that could ever happen to one
person it’s like you have freedom but your soul is in prison because of the burden you are carrying inside
you.

1. Plato

- Plato contends that the true self of the human person is the “Rational Soul” that is the reason or the
intellect that constitutes the person’s sou, and which is separable from the body.

Plato’s concept of the self perfectly matches my own sense of self. I feel like I inhabit a
physical body and my mind half inhabits the ideal world of abstractions. Plato thought of
human characteristics as possessing a wise aspect as an intellectual soul then the other side
of our characteristic is a beast with a greedy aspect.

2. St. Augustine

- The body is bound to life , we are mortals. The soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual
bliss in communion with God

For St. Augustine the earth was brought into existence by the God who created the man. For him the
God is the one tell whether that person will live or die. For him life has both beginning and an end.

3. Thomas Aquinas

- The soul is what animates the body, It is what makes us humans.

According to Aquinas everything that is inside the universe are considered as matter. For me he is right
everything that is inside the universe is also matter. It’s so fundamental that we simply accept that
everything is made of matter. Just like our lives.

4. Descartes

- For him self is a combination of two distinct entities which are “cogito” or the thing that thinks (the
mind) and “extenza” or the extension of the mind (the body)

I think element in the Cogito implies the reason or knowledge of one another’s existence. The thought
requires a thinker.

5. Hume
- The self is a bundle/ collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an
inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

For me the self is like the character which we build day by day we are the one to create our own
impressions and ideas.

6. Immanuel Kant

- The self is an actively engaged intelligence in man that synthesizes all knowledge and experience.

Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism. At worst, most of what he said about the
mind and consciousness can be detached from his idealism. As same as his description of
life.
7. Ryle

- The self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that people use to
refer to all the behaviors that people make.
For him the self is not an entity that a person can locate and describe for him a person therefore lives
through two collateral histories, one consisting of what happens in and to his body, and other consisting
of what happens in and to his mind.

8. Meleau-Ponty

- One’s body is his opening toward his existence to the world. Because of these bodies, men are in the
world.

From how I see it Maurice Ponty comes from all that is described about self and that was told in past
discoveries by all the sadhus and the mystics and from the ancients. He is suggesting that the body and
the self are connected. Thinking is part of the body.