an introduction to Understanding the Self

1. MEET AND GREET
BRYAN DEL ROSARIO ACOBA

2. IT’S 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.