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ACTIVITY # 2: SELF IN ONE LINE (55 points)

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.

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