understanding the self meet and greet
- 1. MEET AND GREET BRYAN DEL ROSARIO ACOBA
- 2. ITS ALL ABOUT YOU? College life is said to be the most challenging and exciting phase of your life. It is entirely new adventure that everyone looks forward to. It is a world different from your primary as well as junior and senior high schools.
- 3. CONCEPT AND NATURE OF SELF: WHO AM I?
- 4. QUESTIONS: Who are you? How would you describe yourself? Do you love yourself? Why or Why not? What are you most grateful for in life? What are the biggest and most important things you have learned in life so far?
- 5. the philosophical view of self
- 6. Socrates: Know yourself Socrates is principally concerned with man. he considers man from the point of view of his inner life. the famous line of socrates, know your self, tells each man to bring his inner self to light. a bad man is not virtuous through ignorance; the one who does not follow the good fails to do so because he does not recognize it.
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- 8. Plato: The ideal self, the Perfect self according to Plato, man was omniscient or all-knowing before he came to be born into this world. with his separation from the paradise of truth and knowledge and his long exile on earth,he forgot most of the knowledge he had. However, by constant remembering through contemplation and doing good, he can regain his former perfections.
- 9. Immanuel Kant:Respect for Self man is the only creature who governs and directs himself and his actions, who set up ends for himself and his purpose, and who freely orders means for the attainment of his aims.
- 10. Rene Descartes: I think, therefore I am Descartes states that the self is a thinking entity distinct from the body. Although the mind and the body are independent from each other and serve their own function,man must use his own mind and thinking abilities to investigate, analyze, experiment, and develop himself.
- 12. John Locke: Personal Identity personal identity is the concept about oneself that evolves over the course of an individuals life. It may include aspects of life that man has no control over, such as where he grew up or the color of his skin, as well as choices he makes, like how he spends his time and what he believes.
- 14. David Hume: the self is the bundle theory of mind for him, man has no clear and intelligible idea of the self. a person can never observe oneself without some other perceptions.