MYLES HALLARE MAROLLANO

BSBA-HRM 1A
WEEK 2: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF.

10 PHILOSOPHERS AND
THINKERS PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS OF THE SELF

SOCRATES - The self is an Socrates concept of the self is “soul”. The ancient greeks
immortal soul that exists over lived long before existence of christianity so that for them
time the concept of the soul for Socrates is the intellectual and
moral personality to humans.

PLATO- The self is an In Plato, the 'true self' is discussed in the context of
immortal soul that exists over knowledge and embodiment, and involves the view that
time we acquire our true self when we activate our latent
knowledge of the Forms. The question is whether the
sheer fact of embodied existence does not raise an
insurmountable obstacle to our reaching this state.

A soul can't live in this world without a body for it is

ST. AGUSTINE- The self is an considered as a unity of body and self. It is an important
immortal soul that exists over element of man which governs and defines himself. We
time all know that we are created in the image and likeness of
God for we are geared towards the good.

The Cartesian self is capable of one fundamental

RENE DESCRATES- The self certainty because, even if all else is subject to doubt, one
is a thinking thing,distinct from cannot seriously doubt that one is thinking, as to doubt is
the body. to think.
 JOHN LOCKE- Personal
identify is made possible by self-
Consciousness
Locke suggests that the self is “a thinking intelligent
being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider
itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times
and places” and continues to define personal identity
simply as “the sameness of a rational being” (Locke).

To Hume, the self is “that to which our several

DAVID HUME- The bundle impressions and ideas are supposed to have a
theory of mind reference… If any impression gives rise to the idea of
self, that impression must continue invariably the same
through the whole course of our lives, since self is
supposed to exist after that manner.

Sigmund Freud believed that if you have a strong sense

SIDMUD FREUD- The self is of self (ego), you're capable of understanding your own
multi-layered. needs and also intuiting the limits that society puts on
you. If you have a strong sense of self, you can move
freely through life.

Arguing that the mind does not exist and therefore can't
GILBERT RYLE- The self is be the seat of self, Ryle believed that self comes from
the way people behave behavior. We're all just a bundle of behaviors caused by
the physical workings of the body.

the physical body to be an important part of what makes

MERLEAU PONTY- The self up the subjective self. This concept stands in
is embodied subjectively. contradiction to rationalism and empiricism. Rationalism
asserts that reason and mental perception, rather than
physical senses and experience, are the basis of
knowledge and self.

IMMANUEL KART- The self
is a unifying subject, and
organizing consciousness that
makes intelligible experience
possible.
we all have an inner and an outer self which together
form our consciousness. The inner self is comprised of
our psychological state and our rational intellect. The
outer self includes our sense and the physical world.
When speaking of the inner self, there is apperception.