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Name: Magara, Kathrin Joy A. Section: BSA 101 Date: ___________ Score: ___________

01 Seatwork 1
Who are you according to…?

Who you are? Briefly explain the concept of "self" as you interpret it for each philosopher. Then, indicate how comparable or different your
perception of the 'self' is to that of

SOCRATES PLATO AUGUSTINE AQUINAS

I believe in Socrates' belief
that life is not worth living if
you don't question yourself.
Self-questioning is very
a believe that when a person dies,
important because will help
you emotionally unstuck and
it will provide you with a
better outlook because you
I don’t agree with Plato’s belief
that when a person dies, the
soul moves to the body. I
it's either they go to heaven or
I agree with Augustine belief.
I believe that when a person
dies his/her will go to heaven,
but you can only go to heaven
if you do good things and live
a good life.
I agree that all experiences with the
world around us determine what we
know about ourselves. Because the way
we perceive ourselves in relation to the
rest of the world influences our
behaviors and our beliefs.

LOCKE
DESCARTES HUME
According to Locke, persons are thinking
I agree with his belief that the mind intelligent beings who can consider themselves Hume believe that there is no self. Even when we
is a part of the unseen creation, and as extended into the past and future and who are actively look for the self, Hume contends, we
the body is just a part of the mind concerned for their happiness and accountable simply can’t find it. All of our experiences are
because our body can't move or we for their actions. Moreover, for Locke a self is a perceptions, and none of these perceptions resemble
can't do something if our mind person, considered from a firstpersonal point of a unified and permanent self-identity that exists
doesn't function. view. I further argue that Locke’s moral and over time. Similarly, when our body dies and all
religious views explain why he emphasizes the empirical sensations cease, it makes no sense to
need for a conceptual distinction between believe that our self continues to exist in some
KANT
RYLE CHURCHLAND MERLEAU
According to him, we all have an inner and an
outer self which together form our “I ACT therefore I am, I agree I agree with her that self is brain.
consciousness. Some people believe that Kant’s That’s a true statement to the best Focusing on his ideas about
with this. It simply means that
views on the mind are dependent on his idealism of our knowledge. Everything that perception and knowing the world, I
for being able to think, we have agree with him. Centering the body
(he called it transcendental idealism). For the to do so something, to act, in makes us “us” is a result of the
most part, that is not so. At worst, most of what activity of the brain. Our as the primary perceiver of the world
he said about the mind and consciousness can be
order to stay alive and to make and that thought is only a derivative
consciousness, memory, sense of
my thinking possible. our environment, our creativity, our of perception, not the source of
perception.

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