The document discusses different philosophical perspectives on the self from thinkers like Plato, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle, and others. It addresses concepts like the mind-body distinction, the tripartite theory of soul, empiricism, transcendental idealism, behaviorism, and phenomenology. The self is examined in terms of cognition, conation, affection, the 'I' as subject and the 'Me' as object, and as a totality consisting of characteristics and attributes.
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UTS Lesson 1 Reviewer (Philosophical View of the Self)
The document discusses different philosophical perspectives on the self from thinkers like Plato, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle, and others. It addresses concepts like the mind-body distinction, the tripartite theory of soul, empiricism, transcendental idealism, behaviorism, and phenomenology. The self is examined in terms of cognition, conation, affection, the 'I' as subject and the 'Me' as object, and as a totality consisting of characteristics and attributes.
The document discusses different philosophical perspectives on the self from thinkers like Plato, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle, and others. It addresses concepts like the mind-body distinction, the tripartite theory of soul, empiricism, transcendental idealism, behaviorism, and phenomenology. The self is examined in terms of cognition, conation, affection, the 'I' as subject and the 'Me' as object, and as a totality consisting of characteristics and attributes.
- Appetitive Psychology of the Self - Rational - Study of cognitive, conative, and - Spirited affective St. Augustine - Conation is the mental faculty of - Bifurcated nature purpose, desire, or will to perform an - The body will dia and the soul will go action to God St. Thomas Aquinas Self Awareness - Matter and Form - Inward focus on knowing people’s - Matter or hyle: what compose needs and the environment universe Self Knowledge - Form or morphe: essence of - Construction of self concepts the substance, it is what makes Self Perception it what it is - Foundation of self knowledge Rene Descartes - Father of modern philosophy The SELF - Methodical Doubt - Totality of an individual consisting all - Body and Mind characteristics attributes - Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am) Sense of self - Cogito: Mind, Extenza: Body - The way people thinks about David Hume themselves - Empiricist - Self is a bundle of impressions The I and the Me - Impressions are derive from experiences The “I” - Ideas are copies of impressions - Active agent who acts on the world Immanuel Kant and being influenced - There a mind that organizes - The self as a subject doers impressions The “Me” - Appratuses of the mind - From the outside - Collection of Impressions are the only - The self as an object way to define a human Johari Window - Trascendal Apperception - Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham Gilbert Ryle - Heuristic - Self cannot be located or analyzed but simply a name all use to refer human PHILOSOPHERS behaviour - Behaviour is what it takes to define a Socrates person - First martyr of education - Ghost in the machine - Body and Soul Maurice Jean Jacques Merleu-Ponty - Body: Imperfect, Soul: Impermanent - Phenomenologist - Socratic Method - Body and Mind are intertwined Plato - Body perceives while consciousness - Father of the academy interprets the sensation of the boody John Locke - Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) Paul Churchland - Movement of the brain Sigmund Freud - Self is multilayered - 3 aspects of personality