Philosophers Philosophical Perspective/Definition of self
Socrates ● "knowing oneself" ● "I know that I know nothing"
Plato ● "the Republic"
● Appetitive, Spirited, and Rational Soul
St. Augustine ● "The Brain as the Self"
Descartes ● "mind-body dualism"
● 'I think, therefore I am!'
Locke ● "Tabula Rasa"
● consciousness
Hume ● "On Personal Identity"
● "impressions" and "ideas" ● "Fictional self"
Kant ● Empiricism and Rationalism
● Inner self and Outer self
Freud ● unconsciousness self
● conscious self ● Eros or the life instinct ● Thanatos of the death instinct
Ryle ● the self is best understood as a pattern behaviour
Churchland ● mind/brain
Merleau-Ponty ● The body, The Perceive World, and The People and the World
This section aims to assess your
understanding of some of the topics covered in Week 2 through the activity below. Instructions: Write down the philosophical perspectives/definition of self according to each philosopher.