Activity – Concept Check
Based on the concepts of the different Philosophers, how do I understand myself? What
led up to this self?
PHILOSOPHER
Socrates (Greek)
Plato (Greek)
St. Augustine (Numidia)
Rene Descartes (French)
John Locke (English)
David Hume (Scott)
Immanuel Kant (German)
Sigmund Freud (Prussian)
Summary on the Concept of “Self”
- I learned from his teaching that if I know
myself completely there will be no conflict
between my physical and Ideal self. And
there is no right nor wrong on what I’ll ask
of myself.
- I perceive by him that I have a soul
(Reason, Appetite, and Spirit).
- We all have a sin that we carry, since Eve
ate the apple or so we called the original
sin. Even though it turns out like that We
are still created by the image of God. And
according to him, when we are devoted
wisdom to God it will bring happiness into
our lives.
- He reminds me to be conscious of myself
and thinking that I’m conscious therefore I
am.
- I shape and mold myself by the
experiences that I encounter. And being
conscious of awareness and memory of
previous experiences are the key to
understanding myself.
- He said that there is no self. I learned that
our experiences are just a bundle or
collection of different perceptions.
- Reason and experiences have a
relationship between those two concepts of
identifying the self. But you must have
several experiences and exposure in order
to have rational thinking in those particular
life events.
- In sequence to further understand
ourselves by the concept of
Psychoanalysis.
Gilbert Ryle (British) - My mind and body have a correlation
between these two. If I damage my mind
therefore it will damage my body too.

Paul Churchland (Canadian) - There is no such thing as infallibility since

we are intended to be fallible.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Our life is based on what we perceive and

(French) what we percept. Our happiness and
sadness depend on what I perceive of
reality, basically It hangs on what I believed.
Therefore my consciousness and
perception are connected to each other.