SIMPLIFIED LEARNING CONTINUITY PLAN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

PRELIMS

TOPIC

LESSON 1: Defining the self: Personal and Development perspective on self and identity.

Objectives

1. Why it is essential to understand the self?

2. Describe and discuss the different notions of the self from the points- of – view of the
various philosophers across time and place.
3. Compare and contrast how the self has been presented in different philosophical school.

Lesson 1

TOPIC: Defining the self: Personal and Development perspective on self and identity.

Class Lecture Proper:

Before we had to be in any formal institution of learning, we are first taught as a kid to
articulate and write our names, when talking about ourselves we first say our names. It represents
who we are, it signifies us. Even death cannot stop this bond between the person and her name, but
the self is thought to be something else than a name. If something that a person perennially molds,
shapes and develops. Everyone is tasked to discover one’s self. Have you truly discovered yours?

The different perspectives and views on the self can be best seen and understood by
revisiting its prime powers and identify the most important conjectures made by philosophers from
the ancient times to the contemporary period.

Socrates and Plato

Socrates - was more concerned with the problem of the self. He was the 1 st philosopher whoever
engaged in a systematic questioning about the self. To him the true tasked of the Philosopher is to
know oneself.

Plato – believe in the Dual nature of body and soul.

Augustine – believed that man is of bifurcated nature. The body is bound to die on earth and the
soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God.

Descartes – conceived of the human person as having a body and a mind. He thought that the only
thing that one cannot doubt is the existence of the self.

Hume – a Scottish philosopher, who believe that one can know only what comes from the senses
and experiences.
Kant – suggest that it is an actively engaged intelligence in man that synthesize all knowledge and
experiences. He believes that self is the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human person.

Ryle – says that what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-to-day life.

Mearleau-Ponty – who asserts that mind and body bifurcation that has been going on for a long
time is a futile endeavor and an invalid problem.

Teaching: Learning Modality/ Strategies

Homebased activity with learning modules/ activity to be distributed through social media
platform.
Or Hardcopy to be picked- up in designated are i.e. guard or CAS Department.

Reference: Understanding the Self

Author: Eden Joy Pastor Alata; Bernardo Nicolas Caslib Jr.;

Activity 1:

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

Answer the following questions about yourself as fully and precisely as you can.

1. How would you characterize yourself?

I characterized myself as a versatile person. I can do anything as long as I have the right
instruction on the task. I can’t say that I am a good person, but a reliable one that you can call
whenever there’s a problem.
 2. What makes you stand out from the rest? What makes yourself special?

I stand out from the rest because of my special set of skills. I can comprehend with tasks in no time
and master it for a short period of time. I’m well aware of my skill placement. I also studied and
learned 6 different martial arts when I was younger. Still hungry and aiming for more knowledge.

3. How has yourself transformed itself?

My current “self”

4. How is yourself connected to your body?

5. How is yourself related to other selves?

6. What will happen to yourself after you die?

Activity 2

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

ANALYSIS

Where you able to answer the questions above with ease? Why? which questions did you find
easiest to answer? Which ones are difficult? Why?

Questions Easy or difficult to answer Why?

Activity 3

1. In your concept of yourself, is it compatible with how the Philosophers conceived the self?
Explain briefly.

Activity 4:

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

In your own words, state what “self” is for each of the following philosophers? After doing
so, explain your concept of “self” is compatible with how they conceived of the “self”.
1. Socrates

2. Plato

3. Augustine

4. Descartes

5. Hume
 6. Kant

7. Ryle

8. Merleau- Ponty

Lesson 2

TOPIC: The Self, Society and Culture

Objective:

1. Explain the relationship between and among the Self, Society and Culture.
2. Describe and discuss the different ways by which society and culture shape the self.
3. Compare and contrast how the self can be influenced by the different institutions in
the society.

Class Lecture Proper:

 1. What is the relationship between and among the self, society, and culture? First of all we
differentiate the following Self, Society, and Culture.

Self – is define by the following characteristics:

Separate, Self-contained, independent, consistent unitary, and private. Separate means

distinct from other selves, always unique and has its own identity, one cannot be another
person. Self-contain because in itself to exists, and independent because it does not require any
other self to exists. Consistent because it has a personality that is enduring and can be expected
to persist for quite some time. Unitary means the center of all experiences and thoughts that
run through a certain person. Private suggest that the self is isolated from the external world.

There is a potential clash between self and external reality. One can see that the self is
always at the mercy of external circumstances that bump and collide with it.

Self should not be seen as a static entity that stays constant through and through, rather self
has to be seen as something that is in unceasing flux, in constant struggle with external reality,
and is malleable in its dealing with society.

In many ways society and culture shapes the self-language for example; both publicly
shared utilized symbols where the individual makes and remake each other. Family-babies
emulate language and behavior and attitudes. Gender identity shapes ourselves in the world.

Activity 1: Essay

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

1. Describe yourself, your environment and your relationship to your community.

2. What are the influences that the society and culture have contributed to your development
as an individual?

Activity 2: Family, Government, Community, Church

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

State the effect of the different institutions in the society to yourself.

Self Government Community Church

Lesson 3

TOPIC: The Self as cognitive construct

Objectives:

1. Identify the different idea in psychology about the self.

2. Create your own definition of the “self” based on the definition from psychology.
3. Analyze the effects of various factors identified in psychology in the formation of the self.

Class Lecture Proper:

There are different exponents in psychology who contribute their viewpoint about the self.

William James for example who believed in an aspects of the self, the “I” which is the
thinking, activing, and feeling self and “me” which is the physical characteristics that makes
you who you are.

Carl Rogers has his concept presented in a schema or our organized system or collection of
knowledge about who we are.

Hobbies
Hobbies

Family SELF Religion

Nationality

- He sees the self and identity as mental construct created and recreated in memory. The
frontal love of the brain is associated with the process concerning self.
 Segmund Freud saw the self, mental processes, and one’s behavior as the results of the
interaction between the ID, EGO, SUPEREGO, Psychology define self as the sense of personal
identity and of who we are as individuals.

G.A Mead has his theory of symbolic interactionism that the self is created and developed
through human interaction.

3. What effects of various factors identified in the formation of the self.

Social interactions and group affiliation – are vital factors in creating our self-concept especially in
the aspects of providing us with our social identity or our perception of who we are based on our
membership to certain group.

Self-identity and self-awareness– which has impact on our self-system.

Activity 1

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________

Course & Year: ________________________________________ Time: __________________

1. Mention the different exponents in psychology. Give mat least 3.

2. Define your “self”.

FACTORS SELF

Hobbies
Family
Religion
Nationality

3. List down the following factors that shape up yourself.