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Name: ShanMickle Recana________________ Section: BSIT 105 Date: 09/22/20222 Score: ___________

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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

DESCARTES LOCKE HUME

KANT RYLE CHURCHLAND MERLEAU

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Answers:

SOCRATES: According to Socrates sprit and body are parts of Self. Sprit is eternal and non-tangible. On death it goes to another. Our
body is tangible, subject to continuous changes and on death it decay. Which is i can say that I’m 50/50 in this theory because I
believed in his concept that our body is tangible that keep changing when. But our soul or spirit is eternal. For me is there no spirit in
our world because no matter what you do while you’re alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die. Death is equal.

PLATO: Plato supported that a person has two parts. Which is body and soul. And he also discussed that our soul is separate to our
body. Which is when we die our soul will move to another body. In my perceptions in this, our soul is completely nothing because we’re
already death. Which is that ending of our life.

AUGUSTINE: He also support PLATO, believed that our soul’s is immortal. But the only thing augustine didn’t believed is our soul is will
move to another body. Which is for me that our soul will complete nothing when we die.

AQUINAS: In his theory of self-knowledge that’s all our experience and world determines that what we know about ourselves. I also
acknowledge this theory because for me this the best representing our what we know in ourselves and our life journey. For example in
order to become a programmer you need to experience how a program works, and how it create a program, right? Which is You must
need to experience yourself to get more knowledge. If you didn’t try new things to your life. You’re just staying to your already known
but not the new things.

DESCARTES: Known as the “FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY” and most famous duelist thinkers off all time. According to him that
our reality is divided to two parts which is (mind and body). The mind is a part of the unseen creation, and the body is just a part of the
mind. This theory for me is true because all we doing right now is part of our mind and our body for example. I’m doing right now my
homework because my mind thinks. that if I didn’t do my homework probably that I got a low grade. My BODY doing the task which
search the answers can help to enlighten me my homework.

LOCKE: John Locks holds that personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity. He considered personal identity (or the self) to
be founded on consciousness (viz. memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body. His philosophy can be succinctly
stated as follows: Experience leads to knowledge. Empiricism, a key school of thinking in epistemology, adopts this viewpoint. Given
that the term empirical shares a letter with the experimental approach, which emphasizes experiencing and testing, it may be easier to
remember what it means. Therefore, in his opinion, the only way to come to a decision and know the reality of anything is to actually
experience it through our senses. A person may legitimately determine this by checking a key in a lock.

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HUME: He believed that there is no such thing as a true self. He was also believer in “EMPIRICISM” the theory that all knowledge is
derived from sense-experience. Which same goes to my example in AQUINAS theory that we can learn new thing by experience it.

KANT: According to him, we all have an inner and an outer self which together form our consciousness. The inner self is comprised of
our psychological state and our rational intellect. The outer self includes our sense and the physical world. For Kant, it seems like the
ability of reflecting and being self-aware implies the self as the locus of experience. Further reflection reveals that space and time
(which we know intuitively, hence called intuitions) and all the categories of pure 'understanding' are also wrapped up in the notion of
the self / the 'I'. Because of this, we can say nothing about the actual nature of reality itself, but only our subjective experience of it; i.e.,
our mind creates a picture of reality

RYLE: Ryle believed that self comes from behavior rather than the mind, arguing that the mind does not exist and thus cannot be the
seat of self. We are all just a collection of behaviors caused by the physical functioning of the body.

I quickly browsed the internet. Gilbert Ryle's critique of the idea that the self cannot be the seat of the mind since it does not exist. Ryle
held the view that conduct shapes who we are. We're all just a collection of actions brought on by the bodily processes.
I believe he is correct.
As memories are used to store the evidence, experience shapes viewpoint. Your reality is created by your viewpoint. All information is
kept safe and secure by the conscious mind, which also controls when it is released. The self is the result of accumulated experiences.

CHURCHLAND: Rather than dualism, Churchland holds to materialism, the belief that nothing but matter exists. When discussing the
mind, this means that the physical brain, and not the mind, exists. Adding to this, the physical brain is where we get our sense of self.
Rather than dualism, Churchland holds to materialism, the belief that nothing but matter exists. When discussing the mind, this means
that the physical brain, and not the mind, exists. Adding to this, the physical brain is where we get our sense of self.

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MERELAUE: Maurice Merleau-Ponty believed the physical body to be an important part of what makes up the subjective self. This
concept stands in contradiction to rationalism and empiricism. Rationalism asserts that reason and mental perception, rather than
physical senses and experience, are the basis of knowledge and self. This concept stands in contradiction to rationalism and
empiricism. Rationalism asserts that reason and mental perception, rather than physical senses and experience, are the basis of
knowledge and self.

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