Republic of the Philippines

CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE

San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur 4418
Website: www.cbsua.edu.ph
Email Address: op@cbsua.edu.ph
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Name: EDZEL I. NAVALES Course, Year, & Section: BSES 2A__________

A. ANCIENT AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE SELF

MEDIEVAL Similarities Differences
PHILOSOPHERS
• All of them believed in the • For Socrates Every man is
1. Socrates immortality of soul. composed of body
(physical)- imperfect,
impermanent aspect soul
(ideal)- perfect and
2. Plato permanent
• For Plato, a human person
can only attain 3 parts of the
soul which are reason,
3. Augustine
physical appetite and spirit or
passion
• For Saint Augustine, man is
of bifurcated nature: -body is
bound to die on earth -soul is
to anticipate living eternally in
communion with God.
• For Aquinas, man is
4. Thomas Aquinas composedof2 parts: Matter
(hyle in Greek) – common
stuff that makes up
everything in the universe
Form (morphe in Greek) –
essence of a substance of
thing
 Republic of the Philippines
CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur 4418
Website: www.cbsua.edu.ph
Email Address: op@cbsua.edu.ph
Trunkline: (054) 871-5531-33 local 101

B. MODERN CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE SELF

PHILOSOPHERS Similarities Differences
• The view is like Descartes’ • For Descartes, the only
1. Rene Descartes illustration of the existence of thing that one cannot
the self. Hume concludes that doubt is the existence of
2. David Hume the self or the person is not any the self, for even if one
one’s impression. On the doubts oneself, that only
3. Immanuel Kant contrary, it implies a set of proves that there is a
experiences and ideas that doubting self, a thing that
humans refer to . thinks and therefore, that
cannot be doubted
• According to Hume, the
self is nothing else but a
bundle of impressions; if
experiences are
4. Gilbert Ryle examined, they can be
categorized into
impressions and ideas.
• Kant suggests that the
self is an actively
engaged intelligence in
man that synthesizes all
knowledge and
experience.
• Self, according to Ryle,
is not an entity one can
locate and analyze but
simply the convenient
5.Maurice Merleau- name that people use to
Ponty refer to all the behaviors
that people make.
• To ponty, the living body,
his thoughts, emotions,
and experiences are all
one
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CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur 4418
Website: www.cbsua.edu.ph
Email Address: op@cbsua.edu.ph
Trunkline: (054) 871-5531-33 local 101