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TRIPARTITE SOUL
- Rational part desire to exert reason and attain decision (RULING CLASS)
- Spirited part desires supreme honor (MILITARY CLASS)
- Appetite part of the soul desires bodily pleasures such as food, drink, sex(COMMONER)
ST. AGUSTINE – “The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to depend on it. Let it lose. It well depend itself.
JOHN LOCKE – “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
- In search for the self, one cannot be simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
- Reject the theory the mental states are separable from physical states.
- Argued that philosophers do not need a “hidden” principle.
- Working of the mind are not distinct from the actions of the body but are one and the
same.
- Philosophical Behaviorism “Mental phenomena can be explained by reference to
publicly observable behavior.”
- Behavior need never refer to anything but the operations of human bodies.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY – “The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work
of art.”
- Existentialism
- Analysis of the concrete experiences, perceptions and difficulties of human existence.
SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWS OF THE SELF
MODERNIZATION
DELOCALIZED SELF – free, or to remove the restrictions of locality; free of localism, provincialism
- Are beliefs that cannot be proven to be true and sometimes can be proven false,
necessary to sustain life.
- Self is the representation of these fictions. A figment pf imagined role.
- PERSONA – derives from the Greek actors, mask, worn to represent a character in a
Greek play
- Like actors, we are all actors on the world stage playing out the various roles.
ANDERSON 1983 – argued that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited.
- Crucial defining features of this type of comradeship is the willingness on the part of its
adherent to die for this community.
- Memories play significant role in creating the self and identity.
- Understand when to possibly bend and stretch the rules that govern social interactions.
- Spontaneous driving force that fosters all that is novel, unpredictable, and unorganized
in the self.
ANTHROPOLOGY
- All individuals are basically the same in their potential for character development.
- customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.
- System of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms.
- Without men, no culture, certainly; but equally and more significantly, without culture,
no men.
3 COMPONENTS OF CULTURE
1. MATERIAL COMPONENT – all tangible materials that are inherited from previous generation.
2. COGNITIVE COMPONENT – all body knowledge, skills, and other capabilities handed down from
one generations to another.
3. NORMATIVE COMPONEN – prescriptions or standard or behavior that govern the relationship of
individual in society.
- STANDARD OF BEHAVIOR IS KNOWN AS SOCIETAL NORMS:
A. FORMAL SOCIAL NORMS
B. INFORMAL SOCIAL NORMS
- Time elapses between the introduction of a new item to the culture and the
acceptance of its part.
CULTURAL BORROWING
- When one society meets another society and end up adopting it as its own.
- Excessive usage of borrowed culture results to XENOCNTRISM.
XENOCENTRISM – culturally based tendency to value other cultures highly than ones’ own.
CULTURE SHOCK – sense of anxiety, depression or confusion that results from cut off.
SELF - Is the sense of personal identity and of who we are as an individual. (JHANGIANI AND TARRY2014)
WILLIAM JAMES – “ A man self is the sum of all that he can all his, not only his body, but his clothes and
his house.
WILLIAM JAMES CONCEPT OF THE SELVES
TRUE SELF – real self, authentic self, original self and vulnerable self.
- It can become a problem when our ideal self is too far removed from what we really
are.
- Lead us to become demoralized and discouraged
- Lead to stress and anxiety
THE SELF IN EASTERN AND ORIENTAL THOUGHT
ANAXIMANDER – The self has a source and that real source of everything must be a powerful eternal
one.
BOETHIUS – The self is believed to be a substance with a reasoning power and a questioning nature.
ARISTOLE – The self is a rational soul that is capable of feeling, sensing, thinking and reasoning.
- “I” identity
- Promotes individual goal
- Individual rights are seen as being the most important.
- Independence is valued
- Dependent on others is frequently seen as shamefull
- People are encouraged to do things on their own.
COLLECTIVISTIC SELF – views the group as the primary entity with the individuals lost along the way.
COLLECTIVISTC SELF:TRAIT
1. Consciousness
2. Emotions
3. Relationship to other people and the world
4. Feelings
- Relational rather than Individual
- Relations to other, society and the universe
- Highly practical
- Offers a variety of techniques
- Do not utilize the scientific techniques of investigations
1. BUDDHISM – Greek word “budh” AWAKE
- Siddharta Gautama – buddha is the founder of Buddhism
- Man is just a title
1. Matter
2. Sensation
3. Perception
4. Mental construct
5. Consciousness
- There is no self ( or no soul)
- All llusion
- Nothing is permanent
- The state of transcendence can be achieved through MEDITATION
2. HINDUISM – religion of an ancient people known as the ARYANS
- Aryans name originally given to a people who were said to “ speak an archaic indo-
european language”
- 3rd worlds largest religion with 1.2 billion followers
“ THE GOAL OF MAN IS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE REALITY”- Lord Brahma, the creator.
GOLDEN RULE – “ DO NOT DO OTHERS WHAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT OTHERS TO DO YOU”.
- Self-cultivation is instrumental
- Self-cultivation can be accomplished by knowing ones role in the society and act
accordingly.
RECTIFICATION OF NAMES – a person or thing should be true to its name
RECTIFICATION OF MALFUNTIONS – a person have two options ( if a person fails to be true to his name)
PHYSICAL SELF
- Refers to the body that includes basic parts such as head, neck, arms, and legs.
- Made up of other organs such as brain, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, and muscles.
- Least well during infancy and old age.
- Physical efficiency generally PEAK in early adulthood and declines into the middle age.
G. STANLEY HALL “adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses is human soul struggles against
each other for possession”.
WE WERE ALL FEMALES (ONCE) – in mammals, the default chromosome is always female.
NURTURE – sociologist, anthropologist, and others in the social sciences argue that human
behavior is learned and shaped through interactions.
1. ENVIRONTMENT – refers to the factor to which the individual is exposed after conception to
death. Includes learning and experience of an individual.
- Diet, nutrition and diseases play an important role in physical development
BODY IMAGE – how individual perceive, think, and feel about their body and physical
appearance.
APPEARANCE – everything about a person that others can be observe such as height,
weight, skin color, clothes, and hair style.
- Body image can affect both the adolescents, physical and psychological well-being.
COUSES OF POOR BODY IMAGE
BEAUTY
DAVID HUMES (moral and political) – “Beauty in things exist merely in the mind which contemplates
them”.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (poor Richards almanac) – “Beauty, like supreme dominion is but supported by
opinion”.
EGYPTIAN ART – beauty is portrayed with slim, high waist, narrow hips, and long black hair.
RENAISSANCE PERIOD – women with full figured and rounded hips were considered beautiful.
- Force feeding is often done to a woman to become wife material before marriage.
STANDARDS OF BEAUTY
1. Clear skin
2. Thick, skinny hair
3. Well-proportioned bodies
4. Symmetrical faces
- Beauty is considered important throughout history.
- Beauty is important in all societies.
“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful inside”.
SEXUAL SELF
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
MEN – penis, testes, scrotum, and prostate gland.
SEX CHARACTERISTICS (SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS)
WOMEN – enlargement of the breast, menstrual cycle, widening of hips, enlargement of buttocks, and
growth of pubic hair.
MAN – testicular growth, sperm production, appearance of face pubic hair and other body hair,
deepening of the voice.
- Men are more capable in sex activities without regard to biological cycles.
- Testosterone and other androgens stimulate the development of primary and
secondary sex characteristics and increase sex driven.
- Sperm production starts at puberty.
FREUD – erogenous zones are areas of the body that provide pleasure.
1. Genitals
2. Mouth
3. breast
4. Ears
5. Anus
6. The lesser degree, the entire surface of the body.
- One of the most basic sexual stimulations is masturbation that causes sexual pleasure.
- Masturbation is a normal and healthy sexual activity.
- The brain where sexual desire originated.
- Sexual arousal is closely tied to variations in hormonal level.
WILLIAM MASTERS AND VIRGINIA JOHNSON - sexual response cycle to describe the changes that occur
in the body as men and women become sexually arousal.
1. Desire phase
2. Excitement/ arousal phase
3. Plateau phase
4. Orgasmic phase
5. Resolution phase
AROUSAL PHASE – a subjective sense of sexual pleasure and physiological signs of sexual arousal.
SEX – physical attributes (body characteristics notable sex organ which are distinct in majority of
individual.
LESBIAN
FEMME – not read as lesbian unless they are with butch partner.
GAY MEN – social grouping of gay men based on their body type.
- Express through clothes, speech, activities and hobbies and our behavior.
GENDER DEFFINITIONS
1. GENDER – State of being male and female
2. CISGENDER – identities assign at birth
3. GENDER FLUID – gender identity changes over time from one end of the spectrum
4. TRANSGENDER – not identify by the gender they were assign at birth
5. NON-BINARY – not identify as exclusively male or female
6. GENDERQUEER – identity falls on the spectrum between male and female
PASSION – drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual consummation.
COMMITMENT – feelings that lead a person to remain with someone and move toward shared goal.
INTIMACY – liking/friendship
COMPANIONATE LOVE
ROMANTIC LOVE
CONSUMMATE LOVE
COMMITMENT – empty love
FATOUS LOVE
8 TYPES OF LOVE
- According to Sternberg, the importance of each component of love may differ from
person to person.
LOVE IS A VERB (AN ACTION WORD)
MATE SELECTION (OLD FASHIONED COURTDHIP) – man proves himself worthy of a son in law.
MATE SELECTION (MODERN DAY COURTSHIP) – one click because of modern technology
1. LUDUS (sees love as a game) – multiple conquest and will find it hard to commit in that person.
2. PRAGMA (sees love as means to economic security) – convenient, practical. No to LDR and inter
racial.
3. EROS (consumed by both passionate and romantic feeling) – being rooted in sexual attraction
4. MANIA (possessive, extreme jealousy, insecure, and controlling) – love is very intense, control
can be in a form of emotional manipulation
5. STORGE (respect, value friendship) – love develops slowly
- Grow form mutual understanding
- Stable and enduring love
- Reaction to separation.
6. AGAPE (non-expecting, nurturing, and caring) – kind, unselfish love
- Very forgiving and willing to make sacrifices
MARRIAGE – united to a person in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by the law.
TYPES OF MARRIAGE
FORMS OF MARRIAGE
- Semen
- Vaginal fluid
- Saliva
- Blood
- No cure
- Medication is available to treat symptoms only
STD’S BACTERIA
RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD – a shared responsibility of the marital couple to determine and achieve
the desired number of their children
1. Aspirations
2. Psychological preparedness
3. Health status
4. Socio-cultural
5. Economic
1. Increase efficiency
2. Reduce risk
3. Proper organization
4. Right direction
TRADITION CONTRACPTIVE
1. HORMONAL
- Pills 99% effective stop the ovulation
- Injectable 99.7% effective
- Implants placed in the body
2. BARRIED METHODS accurate but not precise
- Spermicides kill the sperm in the vagina
- male and female condom
- diaphragm latex barrier place inside the vagina
- cervical cap caps around the cervix with suction
- intrataurine devices T shaped object placed in the uterus
3. EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES must taken within 72 hours of the act
4. SURGICAL CONTRACEPTIVES tubal ligation perfomed in women
5. VASECTOMY male sterilization procedure
- Ligation of vas deference tube
HORMONAL METHODS