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• Philosophy
- from two Greek words “Philo” which means “Love”, and
“Sophia” which means “Wisdom”
Big Three Greek Philosophers
1. Socrates - He was the first philosopher who ever engaged in
a systematic questioning about the self.
o Claims
- “Unexamined life is not worth living”
- The self is the synonymous with the soul
- Believed that the true task of the philosophy is to
know oneself
o Two Aspect of Personhood
- Body and soul
- Imperfect and impermanent
- Perfect and permanent
2. Plato – Further expound the idea of his master, he believed
that there are three components of the soul
o Three Aspect of the Soul
1. Rational Soul – reason and intellect
2. Spirited Soul – managing emotions
3. Appetitive Soul – controlling basic desires
3. Aristotle – the student of Plato, he suggested that anything
with life has soul and claims that soul and body is unified said
that “man is a rational animal”
o Three Different Type of Soul
1. Vegetative Soul – capability to grow, reproduce
and feed itself.
2. Sentient Soul – capable of sensation
3. Rational Soul – capable of thinking
Philosophers